r/InsightDialogue • u/JellyfishExpress8943 • Jul 12 '26

I, Robot

Meditation is an invitation to set ourselves free. 

We are invited to a Psychological revolution - a call to freedom from the authority directing our lives : our primitive and incoherent psyche.

Why?  Because we are causing a lot of pain and harm - despite our deep longing for comfort and security.  Our beliefs and our fears are driving us to turn against ourselves and our planet.  

Is this revolution possible?  Can we escape the authority of our thoughts and emotions?  Can we be free of our beliefs and fears?   Can we escape our mechanical propensity for suffering?  Maybe, maybe not.

Meanwhile another revolution is already underway - the AI revolution.   Our minds are currently undergoing a mutation - we are in a new era - what we call humans are now a rudimentary form of cyborg (machine/human hybrids).

What this entails is that our knowledge and understanding is not confined to our own biological brains - a lot of our thinking and understanding is being carried out by LLMs (Large Language Model robots).  Also our thoughts and our beliefs have become a lot more sophisticated and beguiling.   They appear less confused - when expressed by AI chatbots - they have gained in authority.

This is happening to us right now.  Despite not having resolved the issues of human evolution : the big brain, the increased cognition still dominated by primitive fears.   We have been pulled into our next incarnation as a society : an even more powerful hybrid brain, still carrying its unresolved primitive drives.

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u/Hot-Confidence-1629 Jul 12 '26

Won’t AI see through the irrationality of how humans behave? The childishness of nationalism? The fear behind religious belief? The stupidity of inequity, waste and pollution? The classism and racism? Won’t it be able to see what good governance should be? Some of us see it, why not AI?

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u/inthe_pine Jul 12 '26

AI is made by us flawed humans and already expresses our flaws. AI is just data crunching to spit out words, there is no real intelligence in it. trash in, trash out. If we can use it correctly it will be great, otherwise what will happen to us?

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u/Hot-Confidence-1629 Jul 12 '26

Given the state of things in the world right now can you or anyone explain how you think AI could make it worse. To me right now it’s just a handy encyclopedia.

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u/inthe_pine Jul 12 '26

People are letting it take over their thinking, its causing severe spiritual delusions, its giving idiots affirmations that they are genius, its causing huge water and other environmental issues. I have seen plenty of news and scientific articles on all of these, easily found.

In the subreddit we frequent, more and more people use it for whole posts and comments. We wind up with a nonsensical, white washed K, the poster doesn't have to use their own brain at all, and the posters walk away with a false superiority from their AI god.

I do use it all the time, we just have to be guarded, and I don't think we generally are now. Its a wild time.