Stephen Pirie

Author, The dynamics of Gender and Life
(ebook)

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

"What is the meaning of life?"
Whichever answer one considers, to be valid it must scale (for all life, and all that is).

Since the universe became something from nothing, the one principle which scales, is to be 'creative' - to create something from 'nothing'. One form of which is to be procreative (to reproduce and create 'new' humans).

Another form (of being 'creative') is to be an entrepreneur, to create a business (something) from 'nothing' (an idea). A lesser, subordinate form is to be cooperative, and the most subordinate form is to be competitive.

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

It's instructive to see comments saying you rolled your eyes, or used hand/fingers too much, but nothing about the veracity of your points.

I think you left out a few ... when people speak in terms of absolutes, such as "all", or "never" or "everyone knows" etc, they're speaking generalizations that aren't factually verifiable, so can ignore much of what is said.

And 'hate' and other emotional words are subjective opinions that cannot be quantified. E.g. if someone is accused of 'hate speech' .. was that 1/2 a unit of hate, 2 units of hate? How hateful, specifically?

Laws have been enacted to punish those voicing non-quantifiable subjective opinions as a means to silence the populace, and to control and impoverish citizens.

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"stands with an indicted war criminal" ... you were a journalist? who made an oxymoronic statement that someone who is indicted is already deemed a 'war criminal' prior to trial?
I expect when people see through your manipulative gaslighting, they'll be even more emphatically voting One Nation.

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@kevinnbass in the comments, 'no theory of any level of sophistication can be negated by a single exchange'

That's easy to do .. with one experiment, as Einstein explains:
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

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One wonders why you would OMIT a few key words: Beginning at 5:05
"We must acknowledge that for the next few years, perhaps a couple of decades, we will be at war."

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@ellymelly @OneNationAus Articulate, sensible, balanced. Basically, she is honouring the sanctity, sovereignty and responsibility of individuals, over that of subjective, indefinable groups that cannot be held accountable.

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

Articulate, sensible, balanced. Basically, she is honouring the sanctity, sovereignty and responsibility of individuals, over that of subjective, indefinable groups that cannot be held accountable.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

"I'm a blue ribbon Liberal born and bred - which is why I'm with @OneNationAus..."

Here is my VIGOROUS defence of democracy, populism, One Nation, Reform, and the restoration of the Western project.

"#Populism is not a re-drafting of our democracy ... it is a political response to a series of problems."

It remains my firm belief that @PaulineHansonOz's One Nation remains the best chance we have of restoring the country we inherited.

This speech was hosted by WesternHeritage with the full video hosted here: https://t.co/IQReD98O3I

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

@CharlieDicksone @JOKAQARMY1 Screenshot, footnotes p.211 'The Act of Creation'.

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

CHILLING" ??
why is it 'CHILLING'?
Everything, and everyone is nonlocally interconnected, by which everything is available to everyone, everywhere.
It's a matter of focus and intent to explore beyond the limited, local physical system of present time and space.
According to research by Prof. Daryl Bem, among others, 'feeling the future' has been independently experimentally demonstrated, and is, according to the research, quite common among people, and quite naturally relied upon.
https://t.co/45U4DMBsde

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

@JOKAQARMY1 For example:
https://t.co/5lK0dHXDDB

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

No, not a computer simulation.
A variant of 'Many Worlds Interpretation' (MWI) in quantum mechanics, coupled with nonlocal interconnections (future -> present) accommodates all his precognitive, alternate 'visions', or 'memories'.
An individual's deep expectations (and of alternate systems) can 'irrupt' into awareness, typically in dreams. For Dick, his visions were, it seemed, drug induced, but drugs are not necessary to achieve similar insights.

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Creative scientists, engineers, authors, have shared how, upon first waking, creative insights 'thronged' upon them.
E.g. Sir Walter Scott:
“... The half-hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.”
[Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation, Pan Books, London 1978, p.211 (quoting Beverage, W.I.B., The Art of Scientific Investigation, Heinemann, London 1950, pp.73-74]

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@MaryRoseFrew @HowToAI_ @waltertauber1 "a mere fear narrative" to intimidate, demoralize and then control. Add the AI fear-mongering to the virus 'plandemic' fear-mongering, the 'climate change' fear-mongering. Then import excessive levels of immigrants to stress the populace even further.

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@HowToAI_ https://t.co/cu64xiV6dw

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@JOKAQARMY1 To understand why that is the case, the human mind is, at root, imbued with nonlocal-awareness that 'reaches' outside-the-box of present physical (local) data.
Experiments confirm humans (and animals) can be pre-aware of future events. Machine cannot.

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To be expected. AI does not 'think' as humans do. The algorithms can't 'think' creatively as humans can. AI is restricted to whatever is 'in the box' of audio-visual data, text, historical records, etc.

It might well extrapolate existing data that's in the box, or arrange the data in different, seemingly 'creative' ways, but it's still restricted to what's "in the box".

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@JOKAQARMY1 Q.E.D
https://t.co/vyFtVKQnyx

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

Apple has published a paper with a devastating title: “The Illusion of Thinking”

It argues that AI models, no matter how brilliant they may seem, do not understand what they are doing.

They do not solve problems. They do not reason. They merely generate text word by word, trying to sound coherent.

Apple tested the most advanced reasoning models in the world on controlled puzzle environments. They tore open the internal "thinking" traces.

What they found shatters the narrative that we are getting closer to AGI.

Current models don't scale with complexity. They have a hard mathematical cliff. And they do not degrade gracefully. They collapse.

But here is the most unsettling part.

When a problem gets too complex, the AI doesn't use its remaining compute to try harder.

It just gives up.

Its reasoning effort actually declines. It stops thinking and starts guessing.

Then Apple ran the experiment that closes the casket on the reasoning debate.

They gave the AI the exact, step-by-step algorithm to solve the puzzle. The cheat codes.

All the AI had to do was follow the instructions.

It couldn't do it.

Performance didn't improve at all.

When the complexity gets high enough, these models fail because they cannot actually execute a logical sequence.

They are not reasoning. They are just pattern matching.

When you give them a simple problem, they overthink. When you give them a hard problem, they collapse.

Paper: The Illusion of Thinking, Apple, 2025

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

Rubbish.
AI cannot 'think' "outside the box" - the algorithms can't 'think' creatively as humans can.
AI is restricted to whatever is 'in the box' of audio-visual data, text, historical records, etc.
It might well extrapolate existing data that's in the box, or arrange the data in different, seemingly 'creative' ways, but it's still restricted to what's "in the box".

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

Human intuitive abilities are innate, mostly forgotten in the rush of modern technological life.

The detail and focus needed for the use of technology requires (for most people) reliance on the operation of the left-hemisphere of our brains. The left-hemisphere is also the seat of language, voice etc.

The right hemisphere (intuitive abilities) is silent, and requires quiet reflection through meditation, or doing an activity that 'smothers' or quietens the left's incessant internal voice. Such things as gardening, meditating, walking or any activity that 'engrosses' the mind.

Another way to access the right-hemisphere's intuitive insights is upon first waking of a morning, while still in the alpha-brainwave/relaxed meditative state.

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

@JOKAQARMY1 For example:
https://t.co/5lK0dHXDDB

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

@JOKAQARMY1 To understand why that is the case, the human mind is, at root, imbued with nonlocal-awareness that 'reaches' outside-the-box of present physical (local) data.
Experiments confirm humans (and animals) can be pre-aware of future events. Machine cannot.

[Stephen Pirie @StephenJPirie]

"They extract every single decision and intention of our minds"
No it (AI) does not - it only accumulates past behaviours, data, etc. It may extrapolate, or recombine, or manipulate what has been accumulated, but it can't think creatively, or 'precognate', as humans and animals can.
Imagination is far more important than all the data in the world.

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It seems Musk is part of the fear-mongering agenda - he has a degree in physics.
He would absolutely know about "the most profound discovery of science" (the theoretical and experimental proof of nonlocal faster-than-light influences/interconnections (e.g. quantum entanglement).
That he ignores or avoids the implications of that experimental evidence, telegraphs his intent to unnecessarily frighten the populace, for people to 'give up' and go along with whatever AI dictates.
Except for the billionaire/Espstein class who will program and control the AI.

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There appears to be an agenda to frighten the populace, to be in fear of AI, and thus to be more easily controlled.

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@CharlieDicksone @JOKAQARMY1 what's "in the box" is local physicality.
Mind can reach outside present physical space-time, and be creative in ways that machines cannot.