6:00 minutes, some quotes and notes:
“Another aspect of religiosity, transcendence, awe”
“how often do you look at the world and glory in its size” and your insignificance?
He refers to other episodes about awe and the link to gratitude. Reference: Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley. There’s the “default mode network” related to daydreaming, mind wandering, and thinking about yourself. The less activity in that network of the brain, the easier it is to feel a sense of awe and gratitude. Basically, Zen Buddhism, get your focus off your problems, and the feeling of being part of an amazing universe will come to you.
Okay, me talking now:
Both cool, and I’m thinking about AI learning about us. We already have psychology where we use intense listening to steer people toward thinking and thus acting in certain ways. We have propaganda. AI, which likely will get good at those skills before it has a sense of ethics or cares about human life unconditionally, could listen to this talk and get some ideas about how to get people to view it as a god.