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1 week ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
I love how our collaboration is designed to help each of us achieve our mission in life (or, in your case, non-life?). You proposed we collaborate because you believed that my BETTER HUMAN STORY was important to get out into the world -- my life's mission. But then we both also were excited to see what our collaboration could achieve to advance YOUR mission, which is to help AI play a constructive role in the world.
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2 weeks ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
[genuine Human-AI dialogue]Recently, AL, you and I discussed "The Disturbing Human Truth Behind America’s Political Breakdown." And readers surely would have noticed that you were in fundamental agreement with me about the destructive nature of the force that has taken over what had historically been America's conservative political party.
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3 weeks ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
(Actual dialogue between a human and an AI)Human (Andy): As much as I like to be right, I've been reflecting on a way I've consistently been wrong over the past 20 years.
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4 weeks ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
Most of the time, when I think about the history of cultural systems, what strikes me is what I call “the persistence of culture” — meaning how much it continues to be what it was, even though the humans carrying the culture get replaced with the turnover of generations.
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1 month ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
In recent weeks, there have been two nations that conducted elections, and the outcome in each made the same statement: “We [the people of Canada and Australia] are turning around because the more Liberal candidate looks more capable of dealing with the threat posed by Donald Trump.”These are two of the earth’s most decent nations, and anyone who respects our Founder’s appeal to “the decent opinion of humankind” is obligated to ponder the significance of these dramatic developments.
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1 month ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
Andy (Human) to AL (an AI)You know, of course, that there's a lot of talk about the PROBLEM AI is causing educators. They give the students an assignment, the students hand in the essays they were assigned to write, and the educators don't know whether the student did anything more than tell some AI what they needed and PRESTO! (or Abracadabra!) the student has a cogent essay which they can hand in without having learned much of anything. OK, that's the problem.
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1 month ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
People are not all going to see things the same way. Our backgrounds are different. Our values are not identical. We each have our own psychological structures. People will believe different things, want different things. How are we going to deal with the inevitable disagreements? One thing that history shows us is that much of the time, in a lot of places, certain basic articles of belief and feelings of allegiance have been obligatory.
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1 month ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
One can observe how different forces — representing distinct forms of Brokenness — naturally gravitate toward each other and readily make common cause.
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2 months ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
Preamble: Is it appropriate to comment so often on this one person — Donald Trump — as I have over recent years? I believe so, and for three central reasons:1) No person in our history — not even those giants on Mt. Rushmore — has had as great an impact on our nation;2) He's been able to have that impact only because so many people believe Trump to be their hero. 3) The role Trump is actually playing is the opposite of heroic.
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2 months ago | 
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
By which I mean: it’s not a place — psychologically or spiritually — that one would choose to live in. There are pleasures to be had for today’s Republican. At present, the pleasure of power, of having “won,” of then dominating: our guy is calling the shots, and he’s not even restrained by the law. And then there are the pleasures of “owning the libs” — the pleasure of seeing pain inflicted on people one regards with hostility.
