Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT, has all the hallmarks of a classic Silicon Valley flameout. Silicon Valley history is littered with the corpses of well-funded, but underproducing startups. I have been testing and using several AI services over the last three years, and I was very impressed with ChatGPT in the beginning. However, recently…
This short video is the sixth in a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false…
This short video is the fifth in a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false…
This short video is the fourth in a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false…
This short video is the third in a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false…
Although we normally associate “Ruh Roh” with the cartoon series Scooby-Doo, the dog on The Jetsons was the first to utter this famous phrase of surprise. While many Democrats said or thought “ruh roh” when Biden initially announced he would run for a second term, many Trump soybean farmers in the Midwest are now quietly…
This short video introduces a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false in 1973, but…
This video discusses the downward spiral of people who suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. They tend to avoid researching and thinking about issues. Instead, they latch on to simplistic and often wrongheaded explanations and solutions. Moreover, they usually find others who have followed the same path and trust questionable authorities over mainstream authorities. In the…
The current administration preaches the gospel of isolationism and placing America’s self-serving short-term interests above all else. It is an inward-leaning nationalism that downplays alliances and global norms in favor of short-term U.S. advantage. It favors flashy short-term bilateral deals over stable, long-term multilateral commitments. This video challenges the myth that short-term, bilateral attacks on…
This video depicts a modern issue concerning smartphone addiction. It compares lab experiments with our primate cousins to human “experiments” with human children. Here is the direct address for this video: https://youtu.be/VO1uRMTZB_E