Sunday, May 4, 2025

Drama Coursing Through Your Veins

 Humans will never get rid of the desire for drama. (If someone thinks they don't like it, ask them why they enjoy stories)

This desire for drama conflicts with the desire for comfort. Humans are tempted to want both. However, humans can't prioritize both, since they're inherently contradictory (try to think of a movie where both drama and comfort are prioritized).

If you prioritize comfort, you'll only experience it "behind the glass", second hand; where your nervous system isn't actively involved for the ride. If you pursue meaningful drama first hand, you'll sacrifice comfort. But you'll have a type of drama that changes the world coursing through your nervous system.

Monday, January 6, 2025

Another Thing AI Can't Teach

 A key aspect of teaching/learning is getting content to sink in the depths of the psyche. AI can’t do this in certain ways human teachers can, at least with respect to psychological knowledge:

“More money won’t make you happy”
“You won’t live forever” (for teens)
“Be authoritatively humble and humbly authoritative”
“Have emotionally mature childlikeness”

For these things, AI generated text, in and of itself, will not move the “data” from your head to your heart/soul.

In order for this to happen, you need to digest. Process in many angles. Metabolize everyday events. Catch yourself unconsciously assuming the opposite without initially realizing. Struggle with implications that don’t make sense experientially. Persevere with them until they do. Wrestle with both cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of points.

You need someone further along the way to ask you the next customized question. These plot-twisting questions stretch you from a narrower framework into uncomfortable new ones that are mysteriously coherent. Initially. You “cocoon” thoughts that later flap out with color. This human mentor needs to journey with your metamorphosis while you make mistakes without immediately correcting you with the “right answer” all the time. This is because learning from one’s free-willed mistakes is a stepping stone to the ultimate destination. You need loving individualized attention from a personalized heart.

AI can’t do this stuff.