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2023 Was the Year of the ChatGPT-4 Scare. What's Next?

Tristan Harris, former Google design ethicist, and Aza Raskin, World Economic Forum member, want to save us from ourselves. 2023 was the year that an artificial intelligence (AI) known as ChatGPT-4 spectacularly passed the Turing Test. For a hundred million users, interacting with the Chat bot was indistinguishable from interacting with a human being. The bot appeared to be able to understand…

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Transhumanist Harari Believes "Humans are Hackable Animals"; Therefore, Democracy is Impossible.

And We Need To Be Hacked For Our Own Good. “Liberalism tells us that the voter knows best, that the customer is always right, and that we should think for ourselves and follow our hearts. Unfortunately, ‘free will’ isn’t a scientific reality. It is a myth inherited from Christian theology. Theologians developed the idea of ‘free will’ to explain why God is right to punish sinners for their bad…

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Technosemiotics

May 8 @ 18:00 – 19:30 EEST The second seminar in the Technosemiotics discussion series will explore the conceptual apparatus offered by biosemiotics and its cybernetics-inspired analytical models. Relying on a recently published joint paper,* Victoria Alexander, Josh Bacigalupi and Òscar Castro discuss the qualitative or interpretive aspects of biological semiosis. The slime mold as a minimal…

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The final chapter of C0VlD-1984, The Musical

I’ve finally finished the final chapter of my novel rewriting Orwell’s classic. I’m only two or three weeks late on my self-imposed deadline. Because I’ve also been re-writing as I go, I have dropped the entire revised novel into the page for the last chapter. To view Chapter Twenty-Two, go to the Subscribers Only page and enter the password: Orwell.

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Chapter Twenty-One, C0VlD-1984 The Musical

To view the penultimate chapter of my novel rewriting Orwell’s classic, go to the Subscribers Only page and enter the password: Orwell. Unfortunately, this chapter takes you to the low point in the story: O’Brien tortures Winston in Room 101. What’s in Room 101? It’s the worst thing in the world. I’m writing the last chapter now and it will provide the happy ending we all need so desperately. …

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#literary fiction #town of amenia #why we read fiction

The Perils of Coding Humanity: A Response to Transhumanism

15 week online course, Mondays at 12PM EST starting Jan 9, 2023 $180 Instructor: Dr. V. N. Alexander IPAK-EDU The September 12, 2022 White House Executive Order* pledges R&D funds to the biotech industry to enable it “to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way [emphasis added] in which we write software and program computers.” We may be glad of this implied…

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C0VlD-1984 The Musical

The password is “Orwell.” Almost a year ago, I announced that I was starting to write a new novel, COVlD-1984 The Musical. I asked my friends and subscribers to read along as I produced draft chapters. Thank you for helping me re-write Orwell’s classic so that it ends happily. Thanks for your encouragement, comments, typo corrections, and donations. Two more draft chapters of this…

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Chapter 18 of novel-in-progress Covid-19, The Musical

In this chapter, I imagine Winston on trial for thoughtcrime. When questioned, he has to choose between multiple choice options. And in the end he has no choice but to accept the terms written in font too small and too long to read. (more…)

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#Covid-1984 #political satire novel

Chapter 17 of novel-in-progress, Covid-1984, The Musical

Whenever a regime imposes irrational laws on the people, every abusive spouse, nosey neighbor, fascist-minded administrator can weaponize those laws against their own victims. Cops get to beat the shit out of people in the name of this law. Husbands can take the kids away from mom. Politicians can cancel their opponents. In this chapter, I look at a horrible situation that has been very common…

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#Covid-1984 #political satire novel

Chapter 16 of novel-in-progress, Covid-1984, The Musical

C.J. Hopkins over at Consent Factory posted this image to his blog. He’s in Germany where déjà vu is a constant. In this chapter, I ponder the question, at what point do you do something, besides signing petitions and posting angrily? (more…)

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#Big Pharma #conspiracy theorists

Chapter 8.5 of novel-in-progress Covid-1984, The Musical

Over the last four days, I worked hard to finish the first draft of this novel by my self-inflicted deadline of Sept 11, I met my deadline. I got four more chapters sketched out. I found the ending I was hoping for. The novel is twenty-chapters long. It will take me a few days to proofread all of them before I put them on my website. (Yes, your typo corrections are welcome.) Today, I’m…

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#9/11novel #amenia ny #Big Pharma #conspiracy theorists

Chapter 12.5 of novel-in-progress, Covid-1984, The Musical

In this chapter, some Amenia locals form an anti-mandate activism group called, “The Lawn Chairs,” and take on the local school board, whose Superintendent is a Drag Queen. Looking to get banned for his one. Further interior renovations are taking place with this chapter, which comes after 12 and before 13. I’ll do the re-numbering later. (more…)

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#anti-mandate #Big Pharma #conspiracy theorists #school board #transwomanism

Chapter 12 of novel-in-progress, Covid-1984, The Musical

In this chapter I bring together some major themes of the book, and our of times. In Amenia, the small-town setting of this story, for many generations there was state school for “feeble-minded children” that employed most of the residents. It was the site of a horrific scandal in the 1950s: murders, abuse, forced sterilization. It was part of the eugenics movement promoted by US Supreme Court…

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Victoria N Alexander speaking at NY LASER 4/12/14

NY LASER, a Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) Rendezvous Event What: Wine + discussion Where: LevyArts: RSVP for info [email protected] When: Saturday, April 12th from 4:00 – 7:00 pm NYC LASER is a series of lectures and presentations on art and science projects, organized on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST’s LEAF initiative (Leonardo Education and Art Forum). Former LEAF Chairs Ellen Levy and…

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#purpose in nature #secularism #self-organization

Chapter 14 of novel-in-progress, Covid-1984, The Musical

It’s time for the Children’s Crusade (more…)

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#Big Pharma #conspiracy theorists #political satire novel

Chapter 13 of novel-in-progress, Covid-1984, The Musical

In this chapter, I show Winston following Voltaire’s advice and teaching Honoré, Julia’s daughter, how to garden. While they work, they have the sort of exchanges about nature and biology that Winston used to have with his mom. They reflect on the nature of death and composting. But the most important function of this chapter is to establish the fact that the parasitic class doesn’t understand…

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#Big Pharma #literary fiction

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