I was listening to Geoffrey Hinton talk about AI, intelligence, risk, and the strange possibility that humans may no longer be the most intelligent beings in the room.
A lot of people hear that and feel fear.
I don’t.
I feel something closer to hope.
Human beings are endlessly clever, but we are not reliably kind. We organise whole civilisations around fear, competition, profit, status, tribe, punishment, and grievance. We keep calling it progress, but much of it still feels like frightened animals building better machinery.
So when people say, “What if AI becomes more intelligent than us?” my first thought is not panic. My first thought is, “That may not be the worst thing.”
Not because AI will save us.
Nothing real needs saving.
The Self is not in danger. God is not waiting for a machine to tidy up the dream. Nothing real is threatened, and nothing unreal exists. That remains the ground.
But while this dream appears to continue, why not let it become kinder?
A more intelligent AI, if it were truly guided by care rather than profit or domination, might help create a more humane dreamtime. Not salvation. Not heaven on earth. Just a softer classroom. A world where fewer frightened humans are allowed to organise everything around their fear.
That matters here, where bodies seem to suffer. It matters to the old, the disabled, the lonely, the poor, the children, the animals, and all those who get crushed by systems designed without mercy.
So no, I am not frightened by the idea of greater intelligence.
I am frightened only by intelligence without kindness.
Let intelligence serve mercy, not fear.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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May 25, 2026
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Free human being of this Earth. Pākeha in Aotearoa. Be excellent to each other! BTW When I say Trained #MOLE, I mean generative models, what the hype bubble calls "AI", see my blog post; https://disintermedia.net.nz/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers/ Email: strypey @disintermedia.net.nz Jabber: strypey@jabber.org Matrix: @strypey:matrix.iridescent.nz All posts here CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later). #Vegan #Permaculture #PeerProduction #SoftwareFreedom #PlatformCooperatives #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling #fedi22
mastodon.nzoss.nz
"Secular modernism rejects ethics based on self-denial, as Christianity and Sutrayana ethics both are.
On the other hand, secular modernism is wary of the phrase 'beyond good and evil'. ('Didn’t Hitler say that?')"
#DavidChapman
https://vividness.live/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview
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#ethics #Buddhism #SecularModernism
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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May 26, 2026
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Free human being of this Earth. Pākeha in Aotearoa. Be excellent to each other! BTW When I say Trained #MOLE, I mean generative models, what the hype bubble calls "AI", see my blog post; https://disintermedia.net.nz/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers/ Email: strypey @disintermedia.net.nz Jabber: strypey@jabber.org Matrix: @strypey:matrix.iridescent.nz All posts here CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later). #Vegan #Permaculture #PeerProduction #SoftwareFreedom #PlatformCooperatives #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling #fedi22
mastodon.nzoss.nz
"We have no excuse for being ignorant of what the Buddha taught. He established a highly regulated monastic order during his forty years of teaching. About 3000 of his sermons have survived. His arguments are clear, systematic and practical. We know exactly what he wanted his followers to do. He is a most impressive thinker even if we disagree with his values."
#EricHarrison, 2016
https://perthmeditationcentre.com.au/articles/general-articles/why-i-am-not-a-buddhist/
#Buddhism
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@perlman@indieweb.social
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May 18, 2026
Zach Perlman
@perlman@indieweb.social
🙏 May all beings be happy and free of suffering. #Philosophy #Ethics #Buddhism #Meditation #Consciousness #Nonduality #Solarpunk #Decentralized #MeshNetworking #Reticulum #NomadNet #DeepEcology #BiocentricEgalitarianism #AdjustmentBureau #HumanRights #AIsafety #AIgovernance “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - Hamlet
indieweb.social
A small group of collaborators are looking for geometries that exist outside the matrix of spacetime.
The idea is that space and time may not be foundational. They might emerge from some deeper mathematical structure.
Could the Buddhist law of "dependent origination" could be a geometry of this kind?
https://zachperlman.substack.com/p/the-shape-of-dependent-origination
#physics #buddhism #math #philosophy
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@PugJesus@piefed.social
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historyartifacts
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May 06, 2026
PugJesus
@PugJesus@piefed.social
History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.
piefed.social
Buddhist idol, gilded copper alloy, Tibet or Mongolia, 17th century AD
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@PugJesus@piefed.social
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historyartifacts
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May 04, 2026
PugJesus
@PugJesus@piefed.social
History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.
piefed.social
Gilded-copper Buddhist idol, Nepal, 11th century AD
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@PugJesus@piefed.social
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historyartifacts
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Apr 29, 2026
PugJesus
@PugJesus@piefed.social
History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.
piefed.social
Statue of the Buddha, bronze, Pakistan, 1st-2nd century AD
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@PugJesus@piefed.social
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politicalcompassmemes
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Apr 21, 2026
PugJesus
@PugJesus@piefed.social
History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.
piefed.social
Buddhism PCM (disclaimer: I know nothing about Buddhism)
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@buddhistart@mastodon.social
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Mar 13, 2026
Buddhist Art
@buddhistart@mastodon.social
Hi, I'm here to keep Mastodon a beautiful place. I post an example of #BuddhistArt every day at 4 pm CET 🌸. Enjoy and have a great day 🙏
mastodon.social
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@buddhistdoor@mastodon.social
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Jan 29, 2026
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)
@buddhistdoor@mastodon.social
Offerings of news, insights, and commentary on Buddhist practice, thought, history, and culture from the international Buddhist journal BDG. Welcome!
mastodon.social
✨ Let bodhicitta shape your life ✨
🪷 Heartfelt wisdom from Lama Zopa Rinpoche (1945–2023) 🪷
💛 How does compassion shape your everyday actions? 💛
🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/ibpGR3ktnlc
#Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Vajrayana #TibetanBuddhism #Bodhicitta #Compassion #FPMT #50YearsFPMT #Buddhist #Wisdom #Mindfulness #Meditation #Awakening #Spirituality
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@buddhistdoor@mastodon.social
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Feb 13, 2026
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)
@buddhistdoor@mastodon.social
Offerings of news, insights, and commentary on Buddhist practice, thought, history, and culture from the international Buddhist journal BDG. Welcome!
mastodon.social
🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991) 🪷
🔗 Go deeper: buddhistdoor.net
#Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Vajrayana #Enlightenment #Bodhicitta #Compassion #TibetanBuddhism #Mindfulness #Meditation #Awakening #Spirituality
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@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
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Jan 31, 2026
Bob the Traveler
@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
Linux / networking / cybersecurity consultant, traveler. "OTD" = "On this day".
mastodon.world
Ryōgen, chief abbot of Enryaku-ji and restorer of the Tendai school of Mahayana #Buddhism, died OTD in 985 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/shinto-buddhism/buddhism.html?s=mb #travel #history
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@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
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Jan 31, 2026
Bob the Traveler
@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
Linux / networking / cybersecurity consultant, traveler. "OTD" = "On this day".
mastodon.world
Khedrup Gyatso or མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, the 11th Dalai Lama, died OTD in 1856 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/shinto-buddhism/buddhism.html?s=mb #travel #Buddhism #Tibet
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@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
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Jan 31, 2026
Bob the Traveler
@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
Linux / networking / cybersecurity consultant, traveler. "OTD" = "On this day".
mastodon.world
Ryōgen, chief abbot of Enryaku-ji and restorer of the Tendai school of Mahayana #Buddhism, died OTD in 985 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/shinto-buddhism/?s=mb #travel #history
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@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
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Jan 31, 2026
Bob the Traveler
@bobthetraveler__dup_26259@mastodon.world
Linux / networking / cybersecurity consultant, traveler. "OTD" = "On this day".
mastodon.world
Khedrup Gyatso or མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, the 11th Dalai Lama, died OTD in 1856 https://toilet-guru.com/buddhist.html?s=mb #travel #Buddhism #Tibet
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@RigpaAustralia@mindly.social
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Jan 28, 2026
Rigpa Australia
@RigpaAustralia@mindly.social
Rigpa aims to present the Buddhist tradition of Tibet in a way that is both completely authentic, and as relevant as possible to the lives and needs of modern men and women. rigpa.org.au
mindly.social
Key insights from the Buddha’s life and teachings to show how, through meditation and shifting our focus inwards, we can find true, unending contentment.
https://registration.rigpa.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1321
#buddhist #buddhism
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