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*~*🌐🌏🩷💁🏿‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD GOOD SUNDAY MORNING!*I AM ENJOYING FEEDING MY SPIRIT WITH GOOD!👉

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A painting of a little quaint Church in a winter forest clearing

A.I. Does Not Understand

Artificial Intelligence is a wonderful thing. It can correct your grammar, help you write a college essay, and develop videos using a famous person’s face and voice without ever consulting the famous person. Amazing. I am suitably impressed.

It knows a lot and it knows how to put it all together in easily digestible formats. What it can’t do, however, is understand.

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It doesn’t understand nuances, individual differences, regional perspectives, or personal preferences. And, it doesn’t understand me. I know this because my new watch is simultaneously both useful and annoying.

As I have said in the past, my lovely Google Pixel watch does everything I wanted it to do. It will alert emergency services if I fall and need help. It will even do that if I am in the shower. That is all I really wanted. Well, that and tell me what time it is.

The problem I am having is that it does so much more that it is becoming annoying. It came with Fitbit installed and at first I thought this would be a good thing for me. It would count my steps, tell me how long I have slept, tell me how long I have not slept, and record a whole host of other personal measures including skin temperature variation, mindful days, something called Daily Readiness, and (gasp!) menstrual health.

Along with all these measurements comes a thinly-veiled value judgement. You will be glad to know that my skin temperature is within personal range and my daily readiness is moderate, whatever that means.

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It also assigns me a sleep profile with an associated animal. When I first began checking on my sleep it told me I was a Dolphin. Now, apparently, I am a hedgehog. My sleep has not noticeably changed, but I have gone from being a lively adorable sea creature to a small spikey mammal. This is not encouraging. At least I am not a rodent. Yet.

The system is also remarkably incapable of understanding how difficult it is to walk outside in snow, ice, wind, rain, or fog. All it knows is that some days I don’t walk. When I do go out to get some air it sends me a condescendingly approving text message which is the equivalent of, “Yay! You Walked!” Not enough to meet the optimistic standard I set for myself long ago, but I walked. Hooray.

It doesn’t know that it’s cold outside, my foot hurts, my hip bursitis is acting up, and I could really enjoy a nap. It only knows step counts. It doesn’t even know when those steps are uphill, are on sidewalks full of other people, or are trodden gingerly over tree roots in a forest. It only knows the count numbers.

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My watch also comes with a gazillion other applications that I wish would just go away. The little identifying icons don’t tell me enough to know if I need them or not. I have used the little movie clapboard to turn the watch off when I was in the theatre, but most of the rest of the logos are a mystery to me. If I need the wallet I’ll use my phone or, dammit, my actual wallet.

Admittedly, I am probably the source of my own frustrations. I could tell my phone or Fitbit more about myself in the hopes that they might understand me better, but then I’d be putting more information about me out there into the A.I. universe, and nobody needs that.

No, A.I. does not understand me and that is because I haven’t told it much. I’m like that person who doesn’t communicate well and then complains when their partner can’t read their mind. Yep. That’s me. I’m a misunderstood introvert in a power-imbalanced emotional relationship with an extrovert technology.

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🌐🌏💛💁🏿‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD GOOD SATURDAY MORNING!*& HAPPY CATURDAY!*& LET US👉

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Lovely painting of baby Jesus and his parents

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Understanding is incomplete without awareness of what you do not know.

#understanding #knowledge #mindfulness #philosophy

Do you want to stay in your room during the holidays but fear it’s rude? Or promoting bad behavior? Here’s a video where I explore these ideas: https://youtu.be/L6NxYEI-M3A?si=l6m8qhhS01BWY_TG

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Understanding
True understanding requires awareness of what you do not know.

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*~*Prince Of Peace!*~*

*~*Philippians 4:1-9*~*

*~*💌🌐🌏💜💁🏿‍♀️[DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE👉

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A beautiful Christmas Tree with Presents underneath it standing next to a gorgeous fireplace with stockings hung on it

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust — or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding and the confidence and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1945-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

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A quotation from George Carlin

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Sometimes A Little Brain Damage Can Help”

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🌏🌐🩷💁🏿‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!*TIME TO FEED OUR SPIRITS WITH GOOD!*& LOVING THINGS SO WE👉

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🌏🌐🩷💁🏿‍♀️*~*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!*TIME👉

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Artwork of three Whimsical penguins singing Christmas Hymns

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

TRINITY, n. […] The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not understand, except in the instance of an intelligible doctrine that contradicts an incomprehensible one. In that case we believe the former as a part of the latter.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Trinity,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1056/

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