Tag: writing

A.I. as a Thinking Tool

I have become more amenable to the reasons why A.I. should exist.

The reasons why are as follows.

In this blog post I will try to convince readers that A.I. is helpful to humanity. Indeed, I have called out A.I. in the past. And, perhaps I will continue calling it out in certain aspects. But I find that A.I. is indeed quite helpful to humanity.

Indeed it has been said by many that A.I. poses an “existential threat.” But I will dismiss that outright. I don’t think it does. People should be more concerned with how they can use A.I. to their benefit than how A.I. poses an existential threat, in my opinion. A.I. can help people become more productive, for example.

And no, no company is paying me to say all this positive stuff about A.I. I have come to realize it myself.

Even deeper and more profoundly, I have found a very compelling reason to use A.I. I mean generative A.I. This compelling reason has to do with a book I read a few years ago about the power of asking questions. I think just this about A.I. – you can ask it literally anything you want. This of course is governed by the policies these generative A.I. companies have laid out, of course. You’re not going to ask A.I. what someone’s social security number is and expect that it is going to tell you that.

What I have found about A.I. however, more profoundly still, is that it can assist human beings in thinking more clearly. This is all deep stuff, but I find that if I ask A.I. something, and perhaps it will give me a general answer, but I will think more deeply about that subject. This is how A.I. is shaping my life during these days.

I hope to find better solutions for business problems, in other words, for my translation business, among other answers from A.I. Or better said, I hope to utilize A.I. in the future and now to generate better responses to humanistic problems. This is a radical shift from what I used to think about A.I. But I realized I was being quite cynical about it. I was a grumpy guy. But anyway, I have come to realize and learn that A.I. can be quite useful, especially in the ways I have mentioned, and I am sure it is useful to many other people in a myriad of ways.

The most intriguing thing about A.I. in my opinion is that it can literally help engineer your thinking around a certain subject. Okay, maybe that sounds too profound for now: I get it. It sounds out of this world. But A.I., if understood in the right, moral, correct way, can truly help people (mostly individuals), to think in clearer, more profound ways. And here’s how I’m going to get to the more philosophically juicy part of this entry: you can literally ask A.I. a question every day, and you will become smarter. How? Because A.I. will give you a different answer. And this simple act of prompting the A.I., this simple action, will make you think about things in a different way. I am not even talking about the A.I. “giving” you or “transmitting” information to you. That I think is hogwash. However, if you are to really think about it, and philosophically consider the implications of asking an artificial intelligence module what you are questioning most, it will most likely help you in your thought process. I have yet to prove this. It is just a thought that has been running around my head that I’d love to capture. And I think I’ve done just that in my post.

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Law of Metaphysics

There was a professor I had in college who said you should write your introduction last, a piece of advice which always puzzled me. I wonder if he was onto something though. This is because sometimes we are so hasty to introduce ourselves that we forget the rest.

I am not trying to introduce some metaphysical principle of the fact that we miss time by writing (or living) introductory parts while we don’t get into the so-called meat of things. (Or that might be just what I’m trying to say.)

Here’s an example, and read it as a question: why do people say, “Hey, I’m Joseph, and I studied aeronautical engineering,” rather than saying outright: “Hey, I’m Joseph, and I am an astronaut.”

Perhaps the example strikes as extreme, but it is a paradigmatic shift in my view. I think it increases self-accountability, but let’s leave the theory for later.

That is, if it’s Joseph’s dream to be an astronaut, why would he not introduce himself as an astronaut? Or if he has even already completed many prerequisites for being an astronaut, why not introduce himself as one? Why not introduce ourselves as our dream professions? Why not introduce ourselves as what we want to be, rather than what we think we are?

You see, there’s a phenomenon out there called “minimization.” I won’t get into the psychology of it too much, but I think what it means to me is that we minimize what we are or want to be. For example, instead of calling myself, “translator, philosopher, writer, musician, and reader extraordinaire,” I could say, “Hey, I am into writing,” and leave it at that. (I forgot that I’m a poet, too, in the first.) But you get my point, correct? One introduction is far more forceful than the other. You could even say it has more energy than the other in a metaphysical or physical sense. I don’t write much about physics, but there are certain laws of the universe that go something like, “An object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an opposing force,” and if you’re a physicist, please refrain from correcting me, as I don’t have the proper impersonal status of the “Laws of Physics,” but please spare me if you notice something incorrect in my statement of said “Law of Physics.” What I really intend with my statement of the laws of physics is that the fact that I am all of those things tends to keep me in motion toward those goals. If I state that I am an “aspiring writer,” then all I will do is “aspire,” which is not necessarily my goal. So, there you go, a theory of motivation.

So I guess take that with the knowledge that I don’t intend to cause a theory of motivation into the world, all I do is observe, and generate interesting patterns about important matters to me. If this matters to you, then, so be it.

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