r/zen • u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] • 19d ago

AI Zen Master

Since it's so easy to drop a Zen text or even multiple Zen texts into an llm and ask questions that the llm will answer from the standpoint of the text?

* www.reddit.com/r/Zen/wiki/getstarted

Doesn't it make sense that there would be a lot less confusion and a lot more interesting conversations??

Plus, if you have an llm answer questions about the texts then who better to explain why Zazen Shinto-Buddhism and Alan Epstein Watts are not part of the tradition?

Serious question.

Where are all my AI Zen Masters at?

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] 6d ago edited 6d ago

Another good reason to consider committing a year to economics...

You trust what people do as an indicator way more then you trust your idea about what people should or could do.

Economics helps you to stop living in your imagination and start facing reality. People do really buy pet rocks.

Australia sues Post-it maker 3M over ‘forever chemicals’

Here's an example of costs that are not priced into the product, which arguably constitutes a government subsidy.

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u/origin_unknown 6d ago

I think trying to make the conversation about economics is a good way to pretend the lemon is just out of reach.

I think if we interviewed the people living next to the 3M plant, they'll tell you a different story than 3M or the Australian government.

I think you won't admit anything negative until you see for yourself, and you're mostly reasonable enough that seeing for yourself informs your thoughts, and you're arguing about it instead of just seeing for yourself. I also think you don't need to go tour the industrial butcher plant to understand that negative effects it has and this isn't all that different, but in this case, you just like eating meat and won't be talked out of it.

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] 6d ago edited 6d ago

I've listed a ton of things that are negatives.

People living next to a plant is a problem. But like a debate about property values in an economics forum pointed out, people thinking they don't have to move is bonkers. There's a ton of study data about how moving for jobs and housing is essential to healthy Democratic Capitalism. It's one of the main reasons that immigrants leap ahead economically when coming to the U.S.

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u/origin_unknown 6d ago

I think it's mighty convenient to host a debate about what corporations do to people, without ever having to really acknowledge people being steamrolled by corporations.
Maybe if the Africans moved out of Africa, there wouldn't have been slave trade to the Americas...let's debate it. Maybe if the natives moved on their own for their own prosperity, thousands of them wouldn't have died because of the government actions and regulations.

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u/origin_unknown 6d ago

Ai overlords at work.

Mentioning of marginalized groups was deemed to be an attack, by a poorly programmed bot.