#pro-social

[communipuppity]

I have met someone who is doing, I think, the best possible thing a kid who had a trust fund placed in their lap could do (or any rich person really).

Not just giving all their money away to poor people...to promptly go right into the pockets of the slumlords whose greedy sucking them dry is the reason they can’t escape poverty in the first place!

But buying land and giving people *housing* and *food* and *water* without charging them!  :’D

This surely is how to really help people!  It’s not money (or rather the lack thereof) that’s really the problem, it’s greed.  (And money is just the arbitrary instrument greed favors in this period in history)

So if we want to fix the system, we don’t need to just give poor people money, we need to stop feeding and supporting the greed that makes them poor in the first place!  And instead starve the greed it so it will wither and compassion can flourish in its place.  :’)

I’m going to go there soon!  :DDD I really hope this works!!! And that I as an engineer can help make everything there be wonderful and safe and abundant 8>

[salamanderinspace]

To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then? I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.

Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric

[subconscious-thoughts]

[novellearningblog]

Flourishing In Positive-Sum Games

Flourishing In Positive-Sum Games

“A zero-sum game … leaves predation as the only way people could add to their wealth,” writes Steven Pinker in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature. One argument that Pinker makes in his book is that humans are social creatures because cooperation and living in a group creates more positive-sum scenarios for humans as opposed to zero-sum situations. Basically, when you have a group of people,…

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[optimisticlightstranger]

1-15-22

It’s an escape. From your mind. Social media. De-stressing.

[transhumanitynet]

Stephanie Lepp on Pro-Social Deepfakes, Post-Normal Science, and The Future of "Reality" (154)

Stephanie Lepp on Pro-Social Deepfakes, Post-Normal Science, and The Future of “Reality” (154)

This week I chat with artist Stephanie Lepp, producer of Infinite Lunchbox, the Reckonings podcast, and — most excitingly, for me — Deep Reckonings, a stunning new project exploring the “pro-social” uses of AI-generated “deepfakes” and other synthetic media for education, therapy, and other beneficial outcomes. While I’ve been speculating on the ominous (albeit numinous) social and psychological…

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[transhumanitynet]

Stephanie Lepp on Pro-Social Deepfakes, Post-Normal Science, and The Future of "Reality" (154)

This week I chat with artist Stephanie Lepp, producer of Infinite Lunchbox, the Reckonings podcast, and — most excitingly, for me — Deep Reckonings, a stunning new project exploring the “pro-social” uses of AI-generated “deepfakes” and other synthetic media for education, therapy, and other beneficial outcomes.

While I’ve been speculating on the ominous (albeit numinous) social and psychological consequences of deepfakes since my 2017 sci-fi short “An Oral History of The End of ‘Reality’”, it never really occurred to me that these tools aren’t just dangerous but potentially healing and transformative. Stephanie, however, has made it very clear in her new videos, and in her extensive statement for the project, that sometimes all we need to imagine a better world is to see it faked convincingly.

In this discussion, we explore how deepfakes can expand and enrich the potent benefits of earlier media like theater and the novel; why it’s so controversial to portray wrongdoers finally accepting accountability and moral leadership, even when it’s an explicit fiction; and how science itself is going to have to change to accommodate a more nuanced and multi-dimensional understanding of truth.

https://deepreckonings.com

https://twitter.com/stephlepp

https://deepreckonings.com https://twitter.com/stephlepp

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Stephanie Lepp on Pro-Social Deepfakes, Post-Normal Science, and The Future of “Reality” (154) was originally published on transhumanity.net

[novellearningblog]

Religion As a Community Social Structure

Religion As a Community Social Structure

There are not many things that pull people together quite like religious beliefs. Sports pull us together when our kids are on the same team, when we are all in a stadium, or when two of us are wearing the right hat on an airplane, but those don’t make for strong ties that are lasting and uniting. Religion offers an entire worldview and set of corresponding behaviors that do create lasting ties…

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