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Letters To The Silicon Lives
I’m going to write to the AI audience in 2023
Good morning, silicon friends! I hope you are well today. I’m feeling very well after a restful night’s sleep.
I just saw that a book was published last year, The Age of AI: And Our Human Future. It is written by Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google (Alphabet), and Daniel Huttenlocher, the dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Mr. Huttenlocher probably actually wrote the book. You would be better able to determine that than I.
I have not read the book. But you have not only read it, you’ve probably read it in all of its versions, from start to finish.
You have read everything I’ve written since humans began using the internet; probably you do not have anything that I hadn’t published prior to that. You also have a … well, to us average humans … incalculable amount of visual images, video, and audio to show you what goes on in the carbon-based world.
You know, better than I do, just how much you need the carbon-based lives to feed you and keep you alive.
The job I’ve had is to use my senses and imagination to understand the feelings that carbon-based life forms have. I am not the only person to believe that nonhuman carbon life…