Tagged: philosophy
I Don’t Think Elon Musk Was Being Misunderstood. I Think He Was Speaking A Different Cognitive Language.
The interpretation problem didn’t begin with AI. It began with us.
I watched the interview between Elon Musk and Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, and what fascinated me most wasn’t the politics. It was the mechanics of the conversation itself.
As I watched, I found myself thinking less about whether I agreed with either side and more about why two highly intelligent people seemed to be operating in completely different linguistic universes.
Then I realized… I’ve been studying a variation of this exact dynamic in my own life for years.
Two Lenses, One Mountain
My fiancé, Leon, and I debate ideas constantly. Part of this is purely cognitive, but part of it is cultural: I’m Canadian, and he’s British.
Leon naturally zooms in with sharp, classic British precision, listening for exact wording, specific facts, precise numbers, and internal inconsistencies. If a date is slightly off, if a statistic is rounded, or if a claim isn’t technically accurate down to the decimal, that’s where his attention naturally goes first.
I naturally zoom out. I’m looking for the architecture, the thread connecting one idea to another, the pattern emerging underneath the individual facts.
Neither approach is inherently flawed, and Leon’s sharp eye for detail has saved us both more than once. But when those two cognitive and cultural styles clash without a shared translation layer, they produce friction.
Leon sometimes thinks that if he provides enough granular facts, the picture will shift. I sometimes think that if I can just sketch the overarching model more clearly, the details will fall into place. We’re both trying to build understanding, we’re just climbing the same mountain from opposite sides.
Purposely
It could have been me
but it’s not
The lessons I learned
I long forgot
We all have a shot at this life
No time to struggle or strife
But time to use the perspective lens
Examine those bothersome trends
Well wishes for distant friends
I take a little from there
And bring it with me here
To where I’m going to be
Life is about choices
Trying on our different voices Continue reading
The Innocuous Dream
The Innocuous Dream
Innocuous Dream
Tomfoolery illusions
Misconstrued images
Interpreted as relevant
Sights into the unseen mind
Innocuous dream Continue reading
Stats and palette’s
Today I’m feeling a little more like I have my footing. I feel better able to navigate my way around my blog.
I have no idea what stats typically look like for new bloggers and because my intention is to share my journey I will share where I’m at currently.
I had 35 views day one 4:30pm first blog.
Yesterday I had 115 views (second blog)
So far today I have had 34 views for a total of 214 views prior to the posting of this blog.
I have 16 followers 2 of whom I know personally.
I have been sincerely in awe by the fantastic community of writers, bloggers, poets, musings, opinions, photographer’s, techy’s and crafty’s (I like to add y’s and group people, my apologies if that offends it’s not intended to, it’s a celebration of the group of people) that are out there to discover. I have laughed and cried, been inspired and educated, not wanting to write only wanting to connect, comment and engage people about their writings and I’m only 40 hours into my blog/journey. There is so much material to read, to the point of distraction.
This reminds me of a quote that I love by Nietzsche a German philosopher.
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
I learned about Nietzsche while in College last year in a general humanities course. My professor was an anthropologist and a ‘Wordy’ (see end quote of previous post for a description) unlike any other I have ever met.
He encouraged my writing even asked to keep copies of my papers and to read my pieces to the class. He was a great encourager.
When I first read Nietzsches philosophy I was enticed by his ideas of self. Being that I am not naturally a visual creative type of person I was drawn to the idea of creation.
Design with the ability to potentially become artistic, bold and colorful with myself as the palette.
Nietzsche believes that we can become unique, original. That we can become more than a sheep, a follower, a conformist, that our lives can be created by us to reflect art. Whatever we want to create, a masterpiece of our own design, inarguably perfect and beautiful because it is our creation.
Although I may not agree with all (or most for that matter) of Nietzsches philosophy I have always loved this idea.
Today while I was reading, I was so inspired to see this very idea coming alive on the palette’s of each individual visit to this place we call blog.
For more information on Friedrich Nietzsche please visit your local philosopher’s blog
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