“Who does it serve?”
Jonathan Pageau is a national treasure.
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“Who does it serve?”
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European and British Governments want their people to die in the summer heat.
Meanwhile, here in the USA, I’m having a new AC unit installed tomorrow. How many city permits and approvals do I need in order to do so? None.
https://youtu.be/wC10VWDTzmU?si=hnA7fnOelGuMimWv
Kate … You first exposed me to Pageau a couple weeks ago, and I was instantly taken by the depth of his knowledge and ability to make connections at a very deep level. Once again, he proves what an exceptional intellect and exceptional spiritual man he is. In all sincerity, thank you.
Yes, we need to all CHOOSE to be human, as God created us … male and female. Anything else is inhuman and leads to eternal (if not more immediate) death.
L – Three great Canadian intellects contemporaneous, inspiring humanity to aspire to a life of adventure and meaning. To strive, to aim to be good, to be better, to be our best. Prof. Jordan Peterson, Professor Gad Saad and Jonathan Pageau. We are truly blessed!
And, yes, “These are times that try men’s souls.”
l would add the late Marshall McLuhan. l read his book. sorta. made a speech about it grade 10.
l truly struggled with his advanced vocabulary. maybe take another crack at it now l have some life experience and hundreds of other books since.
In addition to McLuhan, I would add 2 others of his generation as great Canuck intellectuals.
Northrop Frye (literary critic/theologian), and George Grant (philosopher).
In my opinion, Frye’s magnus opus was “The Great Code: The Bible as Literature” and its sequel “Words With Power.” Those books preceded everything that Peterson and Pageau have to say about the Bible, archetypes, symbology, etc.
George Grant was a rare “conservative” philosopher, and was also aware of the importance of our core myths, stories and truths.
So, with respect to Peterson and Pageau….they may have imbibed the major dudes who preceded them.
PS: Yes, Kenji, northern climes cause the good, true and beautiful. Just ask the Scots during their renaissance. Heck, long winters are what caused me to read Frye and whatnot.
Excuse the ramble.
No ramble … great info. And some more Canadian thinkers to explore. Thanks.
Harsh environments create strong people. Physically, mentally, and philosophically
I have a theory about Canadian intellect and arts. It’s the cold weather. You all spend more than half a year indoors, staying warm … so you practice your music and read your science and literature. That’s why you have so many great musicians … and the three intellects you mention. Canada’s frigid weather makes the 10,000 hour rule easier to achieve. 🙂
Came here to say exactly this and list those exact names. So, seconded!!
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ya. well, this whole vid applies to liberal voters, so there is that.
happy[?] Canaduh Day? (as opposed to now gay SEASON???)
my thoughts now are how to survive and navigate the coming social collapse onslaught
Sorry, bro is another black pill, this time techno instead of political. Also he’s telling the same old Greenie lie about AI using up all our water, that one really hacks me off.
It’s all very well to ask “who does it serve?” and get all spiritual about it, but you can ask the same thing about spherical bearings. It serves -ME- if it solves a problem I have. Axles on trains and other vehicles are not perfectly aligned, spherical bearings solve that problem. Cheaply and easily. Everything I eat comes on a train or a truck, so the spherical bearing serves -me- and everyone else in the world who eats food.
AI is this year’s fancy ‘spherical bearing equivalent’. It solves (or tries to solve, anyway) problems we all have, one of which is the obscene cost of software engineering. That alone will pay for the cost of doing it.
Just as the first bunch of bearings Mr. Timken produced were expensive and not of the most perfect quality (because they were the first ever, and nobody knew the best way to do it) so the LLMs we have now are expensive and imperfect. The one thing you can bet on is that they’ll get cheaper and better quickly.
What is the “spiritual cost” of LLMs and big data centers? It’s the same spiritual cost as pulling a plow behind a cow instead of digging the whole field by hand with a stick. Which is the same spiritual cost as pulling the plow with a 500HP tractor instead of a cow.
Buddy can keep his black pill.
I don’t entirely disagree with your take … but now do the advent of screen time and dropping IQ in our kids. I would argue that exercising our brains beyond repetitive TikTok videos is akin to digging that field by hand. You FIRST have to understand the problem … and work the problem … before solving the problem with a 350hp Fendt 936 Vario. And if you’ve watched the latest Clarkson’s Farm … a completely self-driving gps locating tractor. These are fantastic bits of technology … that are utterly wasted by stupid people … those not raised in the dirt who’ve learned farming from the ground up, so to speak.
AI can shortcut humans existence the way highly processed snack foods have made an unhealthy, fat, slovenly people. I see an AI future where humans are big tubs of goo sitting in containers designed to keep them from falling out like perpetual infants.
“…but now do the advent of screen time and dropping IQ in our kids.”
Screen time is a “scientism” scam the same as micro-plastics and the Stanford Prison Experiment. Oh and “violent video games” is also a scam that nobody talks about anymore.
They’re just -lying- to get your attention and keep the grants flowing.
AI is a tool. I occasionally use it to look things up. Most recently Timken bearings. It did ok on the bearings thing, but other times I’ve seen it make stuff up. Imperfect, early days.
“I see an AI future where humans are big tubs of goo…”
That’s Wall-E, bro. Hollywood and Big Publishing have a lot to answer for. You know how to keep a nation depressed and beat down? Tell nothing but depressing stories, and scold the public constantly. Sound familiar? It should, they’ve been doing it to us since the 1980s.
Just remember that 99% of what we’re being told about everything in life is a lie designed to make us depressed. This is why I don’t have TV and radio going in my house or car. Reduced exposure cheers me up.