Issue no. 35
6/24/2024 - 7/7/2024
Introduction
This post will be shorter. The last two weeks were filled with consistent work on LuminaLog.com voice AI assistants, vision pro and regular Muay Thai practice.
Observations on Sunday Morning Commute
I left the house and I heard a man screaming about the bible as I waited for the bus. He ranted about how everyone needs to read the bible, to not do bullshit, to honor their father and mother and to read the word of the lord. He rambled semi-coherently, sprinkling words like ‘mother-f—-er’.
It left me feeling wondering about what this person is like, about what their life story is, about how at some point the human being can find meaning in this kind of preaching of some truth that they sense is the most important and valuable thing they can do for the world. They are doing their best to give to the world what they can. They are out there preaching on a Sunday morning on the street. I reflect on how I perhaps would be better if I was actually at church at this ten AM on a Sunday. The practice of going to mass is something that still has power to make your life healthy through the practice of getting together with a community to cultivate a vision about what is a good life, about what is morality.
On the bus ride to the SF Commons I texted with a friend who is Ukrainian and helping his friends on the front fight this very brutal and long war. He told me that he was dealing with a big loss, that his friends unit was hit and that there were many injured and one dead. They had been fighting for a long time, since the start. He told me how he wished that no one would ever have to go through this hell in the world, and that he wished this would be the last war. I reflect on how war has shaped us, how it has shaped the abilities of each of us, our traumas, our successes, the history of humankind is made through war. I went over in my mind the casual conversations that were had last night at a rooftop in the mission, at a birthday party, around what is the meaning of America, is it a nation and other conversations about the war in Ukraine.
Voice Assistants the Way Forward for Evolution of Human Consciousness
In the morning as I walked across the Mint Plaza, as I do every day, as I leave my place, I reflected on how our ability to communicate through speech really defines everything in the world about us, about our earning power, about our intelligence, about our sensitivity, our emotional state. Through speech we allow information to flow through us and we contribute back to the world. Now I am really captivated by this vision of using AI voice agents to allow us to evolve faster. Through conversations with AI we can accelerate our learning. The fastest way to learn some new topic is through conversations and a lot of time spent around someone that knows this topic well. As the cost of AI voice agents that are effectively super human level falls so low, then we are able to rapidly evolve our consciousness through the daily conversations with our agents. I believe that we are at the edge of the floodgates being open where everyone is talking with their AI’s most hours of the day and experiencing a really fast evolution of their personal growth, skill development and accelerated learning.
