Jeffrey W. Danese, BPS Associates in Sacramento, CA

Jeffrey W. Danese, BPS Associates in Sacramento, CA Bio-Psycho-Social (BPS) Associates for counseling, wellness, & cultural purgation

This discussion between Hank Green (Crash Course, etc.) and Nate Soares (co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies...
10/31/2025

This discussion between Hank Green (Crash Course, etc.) and Nate Soares (co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, 2025) covers more of the nuances, details, and mechanics behind much of the recent discourse/hype/doomerism/optimism in the media providing excellent overview and perspective:

Thanks to Nate Soares for coming and talking with me about this. The book is here: https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/Thanks to Aves for the edit! https://bsky.app...

This billboard in contrast to the ad campaigns of some other startups ( see https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-artis...
10/27/2025

This billboard in contrast to the ad campaigns of some other startups ( see https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-artisan-billboards-stop-hiring-humans-19969672.php ) is, like The Onion, a satirical take on the hype-bubble surrounding ai recently. Unlike The Onion, it is also, I think, a public service advertisement and educational project (see www.replacement.ai for full effect). By parodying the glib attitudes of Silicon Valley tech bros the reader is thrust into the vivid logic and power of their agenda. 99% Revoution Now...!!! https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bystanders-horrified-slightly-too-honest-121500871.html

"Building AI tools to fix the world's most pressing challenges is an unprofitable waste of time."

Mark Manson continues to impress me with his wisdom, passion for human well-being, courage to say what we don't want to ...
10/26/2025

Mark Manson continues to impress me with his wisdom, passion for human well-being, courage to say what we don't want to hear, and his sincerity in disclosing his own personal stories. The following short lecture is about time, as in, how much we have left, death, meaning, and spans the ideas of Ernst Becker, Pablo Picasso, specific video games that I don't recognize, and even Andy Huberman. See for yourself....

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For anyone who doesn't get the doomer worries about ai, who never watched Terminator movies (or Walt Disney's Sorcerer's...
10/04/2025

For anyone who doesn't get the doomer worries about ai, who never watched Terminator movies (or Walt Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice), think ai will solve all of our problems, or who, like me are learning to make good use of ai both personally and professionally...and maybe rely on it already a bit more than they care to admit, or who assume that if it gets problematic we just "turn off the computers" or just think ai as a tool with no will of its own...listen to this conversation between Tristan Harris, and the authors of a recent State Department- and Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored report on ai safety or "the alignment problem", Edouard & Jeremie Harris of Gladstone AI. At 28:23, Harris summarizes all of the evidence reviewed so far in the podcast and begins to outline strategies and possible solutions. Just before that, he asks "Do we all really need a 400-IQ sociopath with a criminal record as a personal assistant? Is this how we want to win the ai race?"

Everyone knows the science fiction tropes of AI systems that go rogue, disobey orders, or even try to escape their digital environment. These are supposed to...

The best way to manage your exposure to news, to "content", or information is to be discerning and confident regarding t...
10/04/2025

The best way to manage your exposure to news, to "content", or information is to be discerning and confident regarding the source. Towards that end, please allow me to introduce you to Naomi Oreskes, interviewed here by Tristan Harris (founder of the Center for Humane Technology, writer/producer of the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma) on his podcast "Your Undivided Attention". Oreskes' new book, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury, 2023) continues her work on the industry of disinformation and propoganda in "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from To***co Smoke to Global Warming" (Bloomsbury, 2011). Oreskes and her co-authors are historians of science and technology whose exposure of the mechanisms deployed by industries to bend public opinion against common sense democratic principles and against the best science of our age is foundational, essential to understanding the powerful effects of re-framing discourse on our individual sense of right, wrong, blunted agency, and inability to engage in collective moral actions.

We're a nonprofit exposing the negative effects of persuasive technology and social media and empowering people to take action. Discover The Social Dilemma, our podcast, course, and more.

Many of my amazing clients are putting ChatGPT to very good use - by prompting it to mimic famous psychologists of the p...
08/05/2025

Many of my amazing clients are putting ChatGPT to very good use - by prompting it to mimic famous psychologists of the past, by creating a version of their futere/better selves with journal entries, just to name two - but reports have been building momentum of folks innocently taking ai-generated content too seriously, finding support for their delusions, finding the best friend they never had, some even claiming to have encountered God. Because of our irresponsible political leaders, who drank the Silicon Valley cool-aid, no regulations protect any of us. We are all unwilling guinea pigs in their social engineering experiments. At least one state so far has taken action. 99% Revolution Now !!

The law prohibits AI from making independent therapeutic decisions.

This is an excellent and impassioned summary and interpretation of the recent report on the future of ai published by a ...
07/13/2025

This is an excellent and impassioned summary and interpretation of the recent report on the future of ai published by a group of Anthropic ai engineers (see https://ai-2027.com/ ). As the title suggest, we are indeed NOT ready, but also it very well might get here much much sooner than we would want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVDDfAkRgc&ab_channel=AIInContext

AI 2027 depicts a possible future where artificial intelligence radically transforms the world in just a few intense years. It’s based on detailed expert for...

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