Stephen

Omg wow! Yeah that was some goooood TV.

Two Zero Two Five 😄
We are ALIVE, may we THRIVE 🙏
#newyears2025

Happy Holidays, Y'all
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…in the middle of orange-green—which is exactly what I would have guessed from my interactions, and predicted from the training data coming from the median internet user! Although LLM capabilities have dramatically increased, I don’t think developmental maturity has at all."
—Jordan Myska Allen 🧵3/3

…higher-order complexity (e.g., meta-systemic, integral). We should be taking that into account.

*This isn’t just my opinion—in late 2022 Integral Life put GPT3 through world-renowned developmental Loevinger/Cook-Greuter’s Sentence Completion Test and found its responses smack-dab… 🧵2/x

"I want to say it again and try to say it more clearly: ***AI is developmentally biased*** and this shapes how information is framed and understood in a way that is mostly invisible to most people—emphasizing pluralism, egalitarianism, and relativism, while often missing or even dumbing down… 🧵1/x

“Snack”

Movie is “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” (2019)

I’m just a simple guy trying not to bawl my eyes out every time this Bhutanese yak herder sings about the Pure Heart. Wbu?

Not yet! Actively in talks with multiple Bhutanese about opportunities to visit, study, and maybe even work. I have the same intuition that just immersing there for a while is the next step.

So I have a 2-fold question for you...

1. In your opinion, and given what you know about me and the GMC, what would you recommend I do?
2. Who in Bhutan could you connect me with? Closer to the GMC project, the better.

Many thanks in advance, and may you have a wonderful day. ☀️

www.gmc.bt
🧵7/7

I am prepared to fundraise and invest significant time, money, and effort to do this. It's that heart-movingly meaningful to me. The closest feeling I can compare this to is the boundless passion and drive that American engineers in the 1960's must have felt to contribute to the Moon Landings. 🧵 6/x

This could look a number of ways. Perhaps getting a Masters Degree somewhere (maybe in Bhutan itself?), perhaps joining an organization that is now or will be involved in the GMC, perhaps building a business that can fulfill a need that the GMC will have in 3-5 years. Maybe all of the above. 🧵 5/x

Fortunately, I am at a point in my life where, over the next few years, I could intentionally develop myself to become much more useful to the GMC than I am today. I could build on the skills I already have (in technology, mindfulness, and facilitation), and also acquire new ones if necessary. 🧵 4/x

To whatever extent I can, I want to contribute to this epic vision for how we could live sustainably, mindfully, and responsibly together on a massive scale. I think it's the dopest fucking thing we're doing on Earth right now. 🧵 3/x

As I'm about 2 months and 40 cumulative hours into researching it, the Gelephu Mindfulness City (recently featured on 60 Minutes, link in comments) is becoming even more profoundly inspiring to me. Like, I am IN LOVE with this city, y'all. 🧵2/x

The tiny nation of #Bhutan is losing their youth at an alarming rate since the success of Gross National Happiness. They're all smart and socially mobile now, but there are no good local jobs.

So the King is launching a radical plan: build a CITY to lure them back.

I wanna help. But how? 🧵 1/x

Neither Nativism
Nor Colonialism,
But instead,
____________.

LET’s FUCKING GOOOOOO

Buddhist Bhutan to build 'mindfulness city' to woo investment, create jobs The "Gelephu Mindfulness City" (GMC) will lie in a special administrative region with separate rules and laws that will aim to be an economic corridor linking South Asia to Southeast Asia, officials said.

I think I just found my retirement plan.

Chonky Kitteh & Birb

minimalist ink illustration, we become permeable to each other, black and white, on a white background

Prompt: minimalist ink illustration, we become permeable to each other, black and white, on a white background

(Inverted colors for post)

Model: Flux Dev

In principle I’m in favor of teaching “AI literacy,” but watching the seven contradictory kinds of received wisdom about AI circulating among college profs rn makes me worry a little about the uninformed leading the uninformed. Model capacity is changing more rapidly than ppl update their opinions.

Oof. He’s so clean here. This is anger/clarity/compassion channeled skillfully in service of Truth.

And I feel that weariness too. These conversations are tough.

Thx for sharing 🙏

I think we *thought* we knew what we were doing, and that’s how we sleepwalked into this mess. Hubris.

Keep doing it.

Back on BlueSky, as it appears Threads is close to enshittifying itself.

Hope is still alive here in Asheville NC two months after the Storm.

Next stop, #Austin…