I read the sequences for the Lighthaven Sequences Reading Group #56 (Tuesday 11/4) the same day before the event. Sometimes, I like to be bad and get a good whiff of smelling salts. This past Tuesday, I got a good shock. Either one wakes me up better than a shot of espresso. At this particular reading group, we discussed how we have this mental cache that creates automatic responses. These readings struck a particular nerve in my psyche since I have serious impostor syndrome. In my case, I might just be an impostor if you increase the size of the system to include the universe. For this discussion, let’s bring it back down to Earth.

I think I strive to be an expert in biology, but the information I do not know is vast. How could I possibly know all the information in Earth’s oceans, which is verified to have life based on rigorous and repeatable experiments as described by the scientific method? Even though I have not personally traveled to other planets. This is just one ocean we know has life, yet there is potential on other moons and maybe even from other planets’ past habitable years. This is why the system matters.

If you take a drop of water out of the Earth’s ocean, put it on a slide, and then view it under a microscope. You will have a high probability of seeing at least one microorganism. If it is a single-cell organism, it will have an interactome that can be a more complicated analog and digital network of information than any human recreation.

Since I’ve been in the Bay, I have heard that we should not normalize certain behaviors. It doesn’t matter what behaviors, except they were different and did not seem within the same ethical and moral alignment. I bring this up because we are submitting our societal cached thoughts (Cached Thoughts) to AI as a training model, not the full extent of human knowledge. So, what do we do?

One of many examples is inequities in medicine, which have resulted in healthcare based on what we used to view as normal: heterosexual white cis men within the United States middle class. The result has been inadequate preventative health care to minorities, women, and highly variable application based on socioeconomic status, language, and culture. Many people have died due to the limitations of scientific research since it was dictated by what society considered the norm for decades.

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