by Scott Howard Swain | Sep 9, 2024 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Business, ChatGPT, Economics, GPT, Liberty, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, OpenAI, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Let’s talk about AI trainers “stealing” people’s data or creations. If your child sits in front of YouTube learning how to pair photons using Swain’s Wobulation Theorem, invents wormholes, and goes on to get mega rich by commercializing...
by Scott Howard Swain | Aug 28, 2024 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, ChatGPT, GPT, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, OpenAI |
Often lately, I hear people expressing a range of opinions about ai. One pattern I’m noticing is instead of referring to ai as “they,” they’re referring to ai as “it” and most often “Chat GPT.” I get it. OpenAI’s...
by Scott Howard Swain | Aug 8, 2024 | All Articles, Health, Life |
Originally written on 2024-Aug-08. 24 citations at bottom. What is autophagy? Autophagy is a cellular process where cells break down and recycle their own components, including damaged proteins and organelles. This “self-eating” mechanism is crucial for...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 23, 2024 | All Articles, Health, Life |
Originally written in 2021 after a little over 2 years of the lifestyle routine below. Health level up! Thanks for having interest in this new take on a millennia-old pie-hole stuffing lifestyle! Before refined grains. Before Nestle and Kellogg. Before the FDA and...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 28, 2024 | All Articles, Culture, Liberty, Life, Voluntaryism |
The List of Festivals Gratitude to Kenny P for putting this list together and maintaining it! Feel free to copy and repost! I appreciate hearing of new events or...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 5, 2024 | All Articles, Culture, Health, Life, Relationships |
A DNA test helped Chani find and fix the root cause of her depression-related issues via a targeted supplement and diet regime that worked! For Chani, in hindsight, the personal and family patterns are obvious.- Her brother, father, grandfather, and self: alcohol...
by Scott Howard Swain | Feb 26, 2024 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Parenting, PEP, Relationships |
The biggest epiphany I’ve had yet was the confirmation of something I suspected, but was not 100% sure of. Years ago when I began researching my book, A Practical EmPath: Rewire Your Mind, I was mostly, but not 100%, sure that one could “rewire”...
by Scott Howard Swain | Feb 26, 2024 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Life, Money, Relationships, Voluntaryism |
First, let’s hear from a person who wants to see the price of service being built into the meal “Why is there a concerted effort to normalise tipping in NZ? It depresses base wages, does nothing to improve service (it’s almost unheard of for cafés in...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 25, 2024 | All Articles, EQ, Life, Relationships, Voluntaryism |
A zoom-able version of the above image is near the bottom of this article. Originally written in June 2022. How much time do we actually save by taking short cuts with our communication? I’m a fan of efficiency. This is why I simultaneously sympathize with and...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 22, 2024 | AI, All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Machine Learning, Marxism, ML, Politics, Privacy, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Congratulations, Citizen 08675309! Your life of ease and connection begins now! I’m your new humble, hyper-intelligent interpreting and filtering implant. You will expend less energy making boring, repetitive, or difficult daily decisions. You can call me your...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 1, 2024 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
On the surface a person might believe, “If we didn’t have intellectual property laws, it would open the floodgates for copycats everywhere, reducing incentive for people to create. We would have Chinese phones that look like iPhones and poor Apple!...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 15, 2023 | All Articles, Business, EQ |
Originally published in 2019 Have you experienced times when you felt you did your best and you receive only criticism? How about feeling completely misunderstood or unappreciated when your accomplishments seem to be in plain sight? Many of us spend a significant...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 2, 2023 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Parenting, Relationships |
One of the most liberating ideas I’ve come to is that being excessively positive can sometimes be as destructive as being negative. “What? Are you kidding? What possible drawbacks could there be from having a positive attitude?” Of course,...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 2, 2023 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Health, Life, Parenting, Relationships, Voluntaryism |
Originally written in March 2022. See link to full size chart below. The increase in unhealthy eating, sedentary lifestyles, use of technology, social media, prescription drugs, failed public education, and a certain kind of parenting have contributed to a ballooning...
by Scott Howard Swain | Sep 23, 2023 | All Articles, Health, Life |
Originally written on 2021-04-03 after a little over 2 years of the lifestyle routine below. # Contradicting the ignorance and misinformation from doctors, big pharma, and the grain industry Billions of dollars of drugs are sold to remedy type 2 diabetes. The more I...
by Scott Howard Swain | Aug 20, 2023 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Relationships |
Following is an argument for using a form of empathy I’ve developed called the “Practical EmPath” (PEP) system, based on and similar to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. Empathy is not agreement, so you risk no loss of...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 6, 2023 | All Articles, Business, Liberty, Machine Learning, Politics, Privacy |
There are several realistic dangers associated with a careless attitude toward digital privacy: Rampant Identity Theft: Identity thieves empowered by casually shared personal information can strip away our security, freedom, and prosperity. These manipulative digital...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 6, 2023 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, ChatGPT, GPT, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, OpenAI |
Have you ever been in a situation where your short term memory was so limited that you had an idea, sought to speak it, and by mid-sentence, forgot the idea? Can you imagine how limiting that can be to your ability to reason? After building a number of applications...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 5, 2023 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, ChatGPT, Corruption, Culture, GPT, Liberty, Life, LLM, Machine Learning, Marxism, ML, OpenAI, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Me:”Hello, please summarize the book ‘Democracy, the God That Failed’ by Hans-Herman Hoppe. Describe up to 10 of the key ideas in the book, and for each key idea, give up to 3 arguments or pieces of evidence from the book that support the...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 31, 2023 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Parenting, PEP, Practical Empathy Book, Uncategorized, Unschooling |
Punishment and reward Some common punishments “Stop crying. Calm down. Knock it off. You’re fine. There’s nothing wrong with you. Be quiet. Shut your mouth and do what I told you to do. You’ll get over it.” Or distractions like...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 23, 2022 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
On the surface a person might believe, “If we didn’t have intellectual property laws, it would open the floodgates for copycats everywhere, reducing incentive for people to create. We would have Chinese phones that look like iPhones and poor Apple!...
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