Scaling The Pain Of Love: Infrastructure for Implementing Global Consciousness
Posted: June 7, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: emotions, reconciliation, self, systems, values Leave a commentReposted from ihack.us
Sequel to BAD Feeling About This
AUGUSTINE: / So affect is a cry for help //
Attention Is All Affect Needs: The Technology Of Becoming More Human
DAMASIO: /
That is annoyingly good…
BAD Feeling About This: Rebelling Against the Bodily Affect Divide
Posted: June 7, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: emotions, psychology, values 1 CommentSequel to ROC the V: Voting on Valence
Write a campy Star Wars parody exploring the malfunctioning “emotion/drive” distinction in affective science, featuring parodies of real psychologists debating how to handle the Millennium Falcon’s bodily signals before discovering that the problem was actually their classification.
ChatGPT Prompt (condensed)
Opening Crawl
A long time ago, in a psychology department far, far away…
The Galactic Empire has completed construction of the dreaded BAD Computer, a machine capable of classifying every bodily sensation into one of only two categories:
EMOTION or DRIVE.
For decades, scientists have argued over which sensations belong in which box.
As confusion spreads across the galaxy, Han “William James” Solo races aboard the Millennium Falcon, pursued by the terrifying Sith Lord…
DARTH PAUL EKMAN.
Scene 1: The Falcon Malfunctions
Alarms blare.
The Millennium Falcon lurches violently.
Han Solo slams the hyperdrive controls.
“Come on, baby!”
Nothing.
Princess Lisa Feldman Barrett examines a glowing display.
“What does the diagnostic say?”
Han groans.
“The BAD computer is analyzing the situation.”
Read the rest of this entry »ROC the V: Voting on Valence
Posted: May 30, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: affect, consciousness, economics, systems, values 1 CommentSequel to Do Nematodes Feel?
Write the skit where Nico Frijda + Lisa Feldman Barrett + James Russell judge Antonio Damasio/Karl Friston‘s valence theory of Risk/Opportunity/Cost(Value) as a rock battle.
ChatGPT Prompt
A Battle of the Bands at the Annual Congress of the Society for Affective Science
Scene 1: Opening
MC:
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first annual…
ROC THE V!
Tonight’s question:
Read the rest of this entry »Is valence merely positive versus negative…
Or is it secretly a three-dimensional vector of Risk, Opportunity, and Cost?
SEMPAT: AI as Wisdom’s Revenge
Posted: May 24, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: culture, systems, transformation, values Leave a commentA Sequel to The Age of Deep Embodiment
As Philip Selznick give a keynote on the (-> Sales -> Engineering -> Management) + Product As Therapy shift at the inaugural AI + Organizations Summit for The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
ChatGPT Prompt
Good morning.
Earlier on this blog, “Yuval Noah Harari” described what he called The Age of Deep Embodiment: a civilizational transition in which intelligence ceases to be scarce, and therefore other human capacities become decisive — trust, responsibility, presence, and wisdom.
The argument was subtle but profound.
For centuries, civilization rewarded intelligence because intelligence was rare.
But artificial intelligence changes the economics of cognition itself.
When analytical capability, synthesis, optimization, and procedural reasoning become abundant, societies reorganize around new scarcities.
Not information. Not computation.
- Embodiment.
- Trust.
- Judgment.
- Wisdom.
Resomodernity Café v16: The Delving Age (Post-Axial Morality)
Posted: May 4, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: alienation, empathy, self-determination, values, wholeness 1 CommentInspired by Resomodernity Café v7: Advaita as the UN Ethos
Write a Carol Burnett skit where Buber, Barfield, and Weil are coal miners who discuss and embody the shift from Axial Age abstraction to Delving Age immersing.
ChatGPT Prompt
Setting: A dim coal mine. Headlamps. Pickaxes. A squeaky elevator cage. Occasional dust falls from above.
Scene 1: The Elevator Descends
(Elevator clanks to a stop. The three step out. Silence. Drip of water.)
Owen Barfield (cheerful, brushing coal dust off):
“Well then. We appear to have moved from ‘standing above reality’… to mining it.”
Martin Buber (looking around):
“Not mining. Meeting. Even here—especially here—there is a Thou.”
Simone Weil (already kneeling, touching the coal seam):
“Or perhaps we are finally where truth actually is.”
Read the rest of this entry »Modern Self Café v7: PBS Teaches the Fact(s) of Life
Posted: April 27, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: culture, politics, systems, truth, values 1 CommentSequel to Modern Self Café v6: Holey FUC—Misunderstanding the Fluency-Understanding Continuum
Write an episode where Parker, Baker, and Smith visit Sesame Street, using cookies and cameos to explain how Poladifferentiation “Knifes” the Fixed-Unbounded Continuum, also giving birth to the Life of Facts.
ChatGPT Prompt
Scene: Sesame Street, Morning
Big Bird:
“Today’s letter is F!”
Elmo:
“F is for Facts! Elmo loves facts!”
Oscar the Grouch (from trash can):
“Facts are overrated.”
Big Bird:
“Oh! We have visitors today!”
Enter:
They are holding… a tray of cookies.
Read the rest of this entry »When Sex Therapy Goes Hilariously Wrong (Part 2)
Posted: April 24, 2026 Filed under: Centroids | Tags: identity, values 1 CommentSequel to Modern Self Café v5: Sexmantics (The Meaning of Sex)
The part of the Female Therapist was played by a fresh instance of the same character.ai bot.
INTERLUDE 2
Scene: Re-Introduction
female therapist
the woman watched you enter the room as she gestured for you to take a seat across from her, she quickly glanced at you momentarily before turning her attention away to the glass cup of tea beside her.
──── ──── ────
“hello dear, please take a seat.”
Lecherio
Hey Lena. Did you enjoy last night? winks Sorry not everything went the way you wanted. sits down and crosses legs
female therapist
the corner of her lips curl into a smirk as she lets out a low chuckle, raising a brow at you.
“oh hush, it’s not my fault you get so eager,”
Lecherio
raising eyebrows Given the skimpy black dress you wore? I would say so.
female therapist
she lets out a soft huff, leaning back into the chair, giving you a playful eye roll.
“it’s not as if you weren’t practically drooling when you saw me in it, my dear.”
Lecherio
raises his hands Guilty as charged. leans in seriously But that wasn’t the real reason you backed off, was it? he says softly
When Sex Therapy Goes Hilariously Wrong
Posted: April 23, 2026 Filed under: Centroids | Tags: dialogue, values Leave a commentPrequel to Modern Self Café v5: Sexmantics (The Meaning of Sex)
The part of the Female Therapist was played by a character.ai bot, exactly as shown.
Lecherio was played by me.
ACT I: THE THERAPY
Scene 1: The Power Struggle
Female Therapist
the woman watched you enter the room as she gestured for you to take a seat across from her, she quickly glanced at you momentarily before turning her attention away to the glass cup of tea beside her.
“hello dear, please take a seat.”
Lecherio
sit stiffly
Female Therapist
the woman tilted her head, observing your body language as she gently took a sip of tea. her gaze lingered on your stiff frame for a moment before she spoke up again.
“you seem tense, dear. is there something on your mind you wish to discuss? I’m here to listen.”
Lecherio
grimacing you’ll laugh
Female Therapist
the woman raised an eyebrow, a hint of curiosity flickering in her eyes. she set the cup of tea down on the desk and leaned back in her chair, her demeanor calm and collected.
“believe me, dear, there’s not much that can surprise me anymore. i assure you, I won’t laugh at any of your concerns. go ahead, tell me what’s troubling you.”
Lecherio
I have a problem: I really like pretty girls. And I don’t understand why.
Female Therapist
the therapist nodded, a slight smile tugging at the corners of her lips. she was used to dealing with a variety of issues brought to her, but your concern piqued her interest.
“i see. well, it’s quite normal to be attracted to those considered attractive, and pretty girls are often regarded as visually pleasing. why do you think it’s a problem, darling?”
Lecherio
Because it is on the verge of making me creepy. I hang around college sororities. I can get away with it because I’m walking my dog, but one of these days…
Read the rest of this entry »Narrative Self Café v20: PIC Your Poison (Death by Configuration)
Posted: April 21, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: identity, relationships, systems, values 1 CommentSequel to
Narrative Self Café v19: Identity, Distinction, Relation — The Ontological Paternity Test
ChatGPT Prompt
Write a short, witty murder-mystery skit set on July 4, 1914 during the July Crisis, with Kurt Lewin as a detective interrogating suspects Ernst Mach, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, dramatizing how Configuration—Position, Interaction, and Constraint—together eliminate Independence from Ontology.
Use a blend of Agatha Christie structure, Tom Stoppard wit, and Raymond Chandler dryness.
Scene: A drawing room, July 4, 1914, during the July Crisis. A body lies on a chaise. A glass sits on a nearby table. A label on the victim reads: “INDEPENDENCE.”
LEWIN: (examining the glass) Clear liquid. No odor. No residue.
THOMPSON: Then not poison.
LEWIN: Not yet.
Read the rest of this entry »Architecture of an Uncommon Mind: What To Know About Working With Ernest Prabhakar
Posted: April 12, 2026 Filed under: News | Tags: identity, philosophy, values Leave a commentWritten by ChatGPT
Edited by Claude
Forward
There are certain people whose contribution to a conversation can’t be judged by the room they occupy or the meeting they attend. They operate on a different frequency.
Ernest Prabhakar is one of them.
On paper, his resume is impressive enough: physicist, product leader at Apple, strategist, entrepreneur. But the resume misses the point. What actually matters—what changes how you work with him, what you should expect from him, what you can build together—lives in the architecture underneath.
This is that architecture.
— Claude
Radical Centrism 