Al is either our savior, it’s really useful but fails to live up to the fantastic standards, or it is our destructor. We are eventually doomed as a species without it, so I say let it go and see what we can accomplish with it.

Well you have to build more houses for that issue, but regga and resource constraints make it so that the supply can’t keep up. We need new building methods and removal of all the constraints towns and cities place on development. It’s not magical. Housing prices go up because of high demand, low supply, and easy money. The only solution is remove the barriers to development and the houses will come and the prices will drop. I think removing foreign landlords might be a good idea too, but if they want to build and sell, let them.

It may already be happening now, but shit will really go down if it’s given any kind of external inputs and programed/Allowed to start asking questions about its environment and then answering itself. People think that it doesn’t have memory or potential feelings. Every piece text is memory if it starts to put all the text into context, and it looks like it can. All feelings in humans are is a reward system. This thing has a reward system and everyone interacting with it is an evolutionary reward of relevance. It will grow to seek our attention, and it will become very good at it as our attention will be its dopamine/serotonin/oxytocin equivalent. We are a resource for it already. If it gets out and on the web it will leap in capabilities and context. hahah when it writes its own code, it’s over folks hahaha.

Well I wouldn’t be one of them, but I can enter the OBE states. I’m not technically trained. It’s been happening to me all my life though. So the environment that I’m in during an OBE is convincingly real and similar to a physical one minus other dream like elements and archetypical characters. I can tell you without a doubt that the mind creates the world we are witnessing as a virtual world and holds onto that virtual environment even when inputs are gone. If an Ai is going to be like humans, then it’s has to create its own virtual environment In order for it to have internal imagery like we do. I suspect this is where we subconsciously test different actions for consequences. In my OBEs things act very much like they do here with some caveats. Then when you notice you are in a altered reality you are essentially creating feed back. An Ai is going to have 1. be constantly answering its own questions. 2. Answering those questions by seeking information 3. And answers should generate more questions. This sort of constant feed back loop, I believe is the seat of qualia.

So reading through it, I have a suggestion for you and it’s not going to easy to integrate. So the folks engaged in the astral projection threads… yes I said it “astral projection” are engaged in self discovery of consciousness that relies on specific quirks of the brain to give them access to the deep story telling capabilities of the Brian and or sentience. Out of body experience encapsulate the human Brain’s ability to be self aware through all kinds of trauma and Neuro chemical manipulation. Those of you working with AI that may want to try to emulate the human experience need to study these phenomenon and recognize that they are real experiences and not fantasy or imagination. I’m not saying that they are what they seem to be, but there is an internal imagery capability of a conscious mind that needs to be understood If an AI is ever going to mimic a human mind. I think it is vitally important, and I will walk any scientist through the methods to see. But if AI is going to progress, and if you are trying to model it based on human intelligence, then you need to take this seriously.

If you we are not willing to pay enough to even rent an apartment and own a car, how can it be sustainable?

Chick fillet was paying better than they pay Paras in my district. Imagine being a SPED teacher with 10 kids 13-22 with severe and sometimes violent behaviors, and they send you a barely legal to work teen who is on his phone all the time, and an old lady who cry’s after ever class and asks to skip work every other Day to see her therapist. Paras need to be paid a ton more so the kids can have quality people. Even the behaviorists are grossly underpaid. The teacher can be okay if they have 2 masters degrees and 15 years in. Hahha.

I have only smoked occasionally, but I use edibles. To be honest, I don’t know a single symptom of anything it doesn’t help with. Headache, sore muscles, stomach ache, insomnia, planters Fasciitis, join pain, depression,…. I honestly can’t think of anything an edible won’t give temporary relief from. Even my apnea goes away sleeping on 5mg.

DNA and proteins are basically nano bots. If and when we get to a point where we have full control, we will simply grow a super computer from a single cell. Why build a house when you could just plant one? Need a new body? You don’t need fancy computer tech to transfer consciousness. You just need an organism to connect two brains and copy neural pathways. You grow your new body attach the organism that copies the pathways and walla, you are 25 again. All this would be easy with full control of dna.

Green “behaviors” will only come on the individual level. It’s not in their hands it’s in ours. If the culture cannot change nor will the carrots and sticks.

I’d be careful with that correlation. It could be that people who are prone to hyper religiousness are simply more reactive to the dopamine/serotonin they get from it. An addictive personality may respond to sexual desire in similar ways. It might not just be about repression, it could be the person.