Slava Rezhik, Shakti 23
01. MY THREE POSITIVES.
1. Fasting, as a medicine, works well in winter – perhaps genetic memory.
2. I experienced a state of detachment while running, when my legs run on their own, and I'm like a passenger watching from the sidelines.
3. Progress in work and physical activity.
02. MY THOUGHTS AND DISCOVERIES.
With the development of artificial intelligence, it's become much easier to find answers to questions. But the answers aren't always correct, and sometimes AI can invent both the answer and the source to support it.
The first thing that comes to mind is the "Google effect" – information that can be easily accessed at any time is difficult to remember. Right, why waste brain power if you don't have to?
Next comes the skills of working with this information, for example, multiplying or dividing a pair of long numbers. How many adults can do this manually? Yes, I learned it in school, but with a calculator always at hand, the skill is easily forgotten.
Previously, to do something intellectual in a profession, you had to study for a long time, gain experience, and get the hang of it. But now you can just ask AI.
On the one hand, this really speeds things up, develops, and so on, but on the other, it's becoming increasingly difficult to verify the answer, since you need to understand the subject.
It turns out that AI can help a professional in their field, who can understand and verify the answer. But for a non-professional, it can be a real bummer.
Sheckley has a story called "The Right Question," in which there's a certain Oracle who knows the answers to all questions. The only problem is that he can't properly answer those who ask him, since they don't understand the subject matter. It's like explaining to a small child how letters appear on a computer screen when you press a keyboard button—except perhaps by using a simplified analogy, rather than talking about electrical signals, processors, and all that.
But progress doesn't stand still; AI is clearly the future, but isn't it just cutting off the branch it's sitting on?
Training requires human-generated materials. It requires people—professionals—to teach it how to give the correct answer. And if people rely on AI and cease to be professionals, then who will generate these materials?
I think the first to suffer are junior workers who have just completed their training and who need experience, and not particularly complex work that AI can perform. But who will give people a job if they can be replaced with hardware?
And without this experience, the junior worker won't become a professional, and there will be no one to generate the training material for the AI.
If this scenario unfolds, all professionals will gradually die out, and the entire system that powers AI could collapse after them. Welcome to the Stone Age?
Humans have also lost the need for physical activity—there's no need to run from a predator, you can sit on the couch all day, but that's bad for your health, diseases are becoming more common, and some people force themselves to exercise.
Perhaps the same will happen with education? Perhaps in the future, it will be possible to avoid studying and working, but mental health issues—the test of freedom—may arise.
And just as some people now exhaust themselves with physical training, people will exhaust themselves with education. Either for the enjoyment of the result or the process.
03. MY YOGA INSPIRATION IN A WEEK.
Gentle recovery after overdoing it with physical activity.
04. MY GRATITUDE AND PRAISE.
For what you taught me.
05. I WANT TO PRAISE MYSELF.
I've made progress in my physical activity.
06. PERSONAL YOGA PRACTICE FOR THE WEEK.*
Yoga every day - Hatha, Kriya, Mantra
07. DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING.*
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