https://spectra.video/videos/watch/9e337379-09d4-4304-ab37-2082716876c2 the writers of ON COMPUTER GAMES discuss artificial intelligence, Buddhism, Neuromancer, their recent essays, and more. hermes artwork by @prahou@merveilles.town (mastodon) timeline: 0:00 - 29:00 u2, recent essays, approaching the world through the lens of a child, buddhism, “pulling out the arrow,” posting our essays on reddit, getting feedback, the nature of reddit, burger king ocarina of time, the sorrow of reddit, becoming toy, playing with a yo-yo 29:00 - 1:06:00 tech taking over our lives, smart watches, the desire to be jacked in, will being subverted by tech companies, the matrix, should you live in the matrix or not?, human desire for reality, buddhism compared to simulation theory, burger king link and buddhism, do you need willpower to practice buddhism?, lotus position, celebrating limits, tech companies don’t care about you, who’s the real daddy: trump or tech? 1:07:00 - 1:12:00 commercial break 1:12:00 - 1:55:00 legend of dragoon, artificial intelligence, ai is primarily used for “tell me how to communicate” instead of things like science or medicine, ai is anti-human, ai robs you of self-improvement, objective truth, ai being confidently wrong, relying on ai so much that you can no longer tell when it’s confidently wrong, ai only has our current knowledge and cannot advance beyond that without human input, ai lacks curiosity, which is the fundamental human trait that furthers our understanding of the world, so ai can never further our understanding of the world, are there any positives to ai?, being able to instantly query a large knowledge base does have utility, ai stunts growth, kids using ai, ai needs to stay in its own lane, ai stunts the beauty that could be, the buddhist-capitalist spectrum, ai would not exist without capitalism 1:55:00 - anti-capitalism propaganda, what would happen if everyone adopted a buddhist mindset right now? Wed, 20 May 2026 22:16:55 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://spectra.video https://spectra.video/lazy-static/avatars/71f5d173-eea9-47a7-b254-f7e91f9f5d25.png https://spectra.video/videos/watch/9e337379-09d4-4304-ab37-2082716876c2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://spectra.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.