What is artificial intelligence? Will it be able to think and feel? Can it replace human beings?
Can it assist in things of real importance?
Society
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We have ceased to be shocked by the breakdown in moral inhibitions.
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"We have ceased to be shocked by the breakdown in moral inhibitions"
“Our entire civilization today – we’ve all gone under one idea: interest or need. And we are taught the greatest thing alive is to satisfy one’s needs and interests. Actually, our way of living revolved around one principle: self-interest. Self-interest. There is nothing else but self-interest. If love is only self-interest, then love is a fake, a pretense.” Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, 409"We have shaped our lives around the...
"We are miserable, greedy, and depraved"
“They took the bread and milk and meat from the people of their fields; they gave it to feed, and retain here in their service, this fermenting mass of unhappy human beings, — news-mongers, novel-mongers, picture-mongers, poison-drink-mongers, lust and death-mongers; the whole smoking mass of it one vast dead-marine storeshop, — accumulation of wreck of the Dead Sea, with every activity in it, a form of putrefaction.” The Genius of John Ruskin, 402
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What are the principles of modern society?
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Reflect on Society: What are the principles of modern society?
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What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
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Challenge
Exquisite sensitivity and incomparable tenderness.
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Society Challenge
What our civilization needs today. . .is the cultivation of an exquisite sensitivity and an incomparable tenderness…Unnamable horrors have paraded before us and worse evils threaten because we have been unable to wipe the blank stare of indifference from our stony tearless faces. (Lewis Mumford)
“Our victories have come to resemble defeats. In spite of our triumphs, we have fallen victims to the work of our hands; it is as if the forces we had conquered have conquered us.” Abraham Heschel
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“Our victories have come to resemble defeats. In spite of our triumphs, we have fallen victims to the work of our hands; it is as if the forces we had conquered have conquered us.” Abraham Heschel
What is success?
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Create Visionary Society
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Society
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