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Go change it.

[Taylor Capito @TaylorCapito]

This video is harrowing.

Humanity’s greatest threat is the impending death of meaning. Once we as a society subscribe and surrender to this

-it’s over.-

Human beings are special, we can *create* meaning. Out of nothing. And so I have hope that we will create new roles for ourselves.

We certainly *can*.

For anyone who has looked into Calhoun’s Universe 25 - we’re in our own “Universe 2025” moment *right now*.

We get to decide where we go from here.

Do we adopt UBI and the narrative from this video - that we are “replaced”? Do we “give up”, as it were? We’re certainly headed that way.

-Or do we reframe?-

Do we *double down* on the things that make humanity special? Do we *create* the new narrative.

Do we surrender to lives that are “boring”, “redundant”, where we “have no purpose” and “do not matter”?

Or do we *create* NEW meaning?

Do we collectively *remember* a way of being - from before technology?

The meaning of being human. Of craft. Of experience with other humans and community.

I choose to *value* those things.

And demonstrate that I value them with intention and allocated time. Where I put my time.

Do we subscribe to be factory produced cookie cutter meaningless people? Do you choose that frame?

Or do we look around us at the value of human beings, human interaction, human creativity and ingenuity. Human time. The most scarce resource there is.

If we look locally at the people around us and the craft produced down the road by that barista who put her scarce resource *time* into perfecting the perfect cup of coffee. Take that in.

Can we choose to spend our most valuable asset *time* in nature with friends. Taking in the trees and the moment. Building community, family - something that grows with investment.

Can we live in this world of automation and embrace what it allows us *not* to have to focus on with our *time*. Because it frees us up for the things that matter: human experience, narrative, creativity, culture, -life-.

Money is a fungible asset. Markets shift. The value of currency is not constant. Time is non-fungible (even if it isn’t linear).

What do you value? Then get out of the hamster wheel you’re in. Forget about being obsoletified by AI. And go live.

Find what people who spend their *time* with you *value your time for*. What is that thing? That your friends say “I love you for this”. Then do it more. As much as you can. That might just be your “thing” in this new age in which we live. That might be your purpose. Refine it like your craft.

And don’t forget that humans are unique. We can control how we perceive things. And we can make a conscious choice every day to focus our perceptions on the positive future.

I have hope that we collectively will come up with a way to value human time more honestly and ways that human experience and outcomes can be directly impacted.

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In 1966, children were asked how they imagined life in the year 2000

[Taylor Capito @TaylorCapito]

@RahfvayelEhnder Thank you 🙏

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Intelligence has developed technologies capable of transforming its environment faster than it can reliably transform itself.

The next frontier of technological development must therefore include the intentional development of the beings creating and using those technologies, while preserving the diversity, autonomy, and adaptability of life.

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@torreydawley I’d love to

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We have developed the technology to shape our environment faster than ever before.

Now we have to develop the ability to shape ourselves as quickly as our environment is changing.

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Day 2 of Summit I in Kobe. Thank you to our Sunday speakers @thatmre @devsodhi @j_n_justice @TaylorCapito @MinicircleDNA @AMED_officialGL @xprize @KobeU_Global

Summit II and Demo Day: 24 to 26 Oct. https://t.co/TpKcVxkXna

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Day 2 of Mirai Tech City Summit I. Sunday 18 October, Kobe. 15 speakers, full line-up in the thread below.

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@MaryJackalope I love this

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@maryisalien Yep.

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@bzogrammer Love this

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@StevenMusielski I think this is beautiful. And - “how can I be a light?”: one I ask myself.

I believe when you model integrity and goodness through being, then you can shift reality around you

[Taylor Capito @TaylorCapito]

It can be so hard in the moment. So hard. To let go of all the constructs we have built up in our minds and just “be”. And yet, when we can do that, the level of relief we’re able to feel is indescribable. It needs its own word, because truly there isn’t a word that captures that feeling of relief when you remember that you control your thoughts and all you have to do to stop being miserable is to simple not be. To simply focus on the moment, and whatever light there is to appreciate in that moment.

In German, there’s ‘gelassenheit ‘ or “letting-be.” And in Japanaese, there’s ‘satori’. In Sanskrit, there’s ‘santosa,’ and in Chinese, there’s ‘wu-wei.’ The overall concept is prevalent in the East, but it doesn’t have the pain or eureka that precedes it in Western consumer and dopaminergic culture. So I created one. I created a word for this from the most ancestral proto-indo-european language roots and I added that precursor of “suffering as part of the process” as a part of its meaning.

It’s such a special feeling: the relief, joy, and jubilation that comes from that moment when you ‘remember’ that you control your reality through metacognition and where you choose to direct your thoughts, and you also remember that even the forgetting was part of the process to remembering and have a feeling in your belly that makes you want to laugh.

I once wrote something in the that moment that I think describes it best:

I once looked for myself everywhere and in everything. I created stories from illusions of worlds that didn’t exist - just to bring meaning back to my life. And it meant everything. And it was meaningless.

The story only ever held whatever value I assigned to it.

I keep wanting to “change the world” and to do things to improve it.

What I keep forgetting and remembering, again and again and again and again, is that by being me and actively participating, I am changing the world. Like the very, very strange attractor that I am. Even if I can’t always see the changes.

And perhaps I never will.

We can know the end point, and still that does not change that we must participate in the unfolding for it to occur. And so if time is in fact a spiral, then we just exist in ephemeral memories mid-happening.

And yet, still, the realization of this only makes it more important that we live.

For the act of being is what gives the world meaning within each of us.

And it is that collective strive to exist and discover meaning that defines consciousness as I see it.

The forgetting is also what makes the remembering so beautiful.

Because there is this lovely moment in between the forgetting and the remembering - at least for me - where I review my life from outside of myself, as though I were reading a book or watching a movie.

I often think “I’d watch that movie,” and I smile to myself and remember.

Living is awesome.

How do you capture that in a word? The immense feeling of joy, relief, and physical peace plus paradoxical elation of coming back from being lost and remembering that getting lost is the whole point.

Lunawen (LOO-nah-wen): the immense, belly-light joy and peaceful relief of returning from being lost – and remembering that getting lost was the point; the laugh-tinged clarity when you notice you can steer your mind again, and the whole spiral suddenly makes sense.

*full substack linked in thread

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@torreydawley Thank you 🙏

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@MaryJackalope 😍

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If you refuse to accept you have a shadow, you’ll never choose to stand in the light

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My article We Are Not Mice was written for a former version of my brain.

The rationalist brain.
The materialist brain.

The brain that lives in frameworks and systems
...and always will.

It is a real part of me. But it is not all of me.

I invested two intense weeks in that essay. I’m proud of the science I distilled and how I translated a metaphysical reality into 2D models. I stand by everything in it and am happy to share.

…yet it is only part of the picture.

The rest lives in the sibling essays I’m writing now — pieces that capture dimensions of experience beyond a purely rationalist lens. They complement the biological frame of We Are Not Mice rather than contradict it.

One clarification feels important: while I chose an intentionally alarmist tone in We Are Not Mice — to grab attention around a real issue I see happening with our society’s use of technology — I also believe we stand at a genuine inflection point.

AI has already absorbed much of the post-industrial busywork. For the first time in decades, we have a real opening to drop deeper into being human. And perhaps with more abundance than ever before.

Creating.
Emoting.
Connecting.

Living.

I didn’t want to publish the first piece without giving a glimpse into the more complete picture… to be unveiled next.

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@bzogrammer I’m testing this repeatedly

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@elonmusk I have a whole theory about how observation *is* and *transacts* gravity. And yes… simulation.