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The original Video on how you should learn a language

Best explanation of how to use LingQ

Comprehensible Input

Grammar is interesting but should not be overdone

The universal feature of all learning is a focus on comprehensible input

The Power of Reading

Some Summary

• Interesting Stories about his workouts with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Playlist

Simulation: A painter draws a horse that is so real that it cannot be distinguished from a hourse

Arguments:

• During the media “explosion of events”, any event has a “contra-positive”
• Every event is staged (eg. war is reduced to TikTok, Instagram, or news)
• The line between marketing, news and truth is impossible to discern (eg. Sylvester Stallone is in the hall of fame of boxing)
• Reality becomes the hyper-real
• The signs of disaster are pictures to be consumed
• The media create copies: non-events that are easily digested
• We become complicit in disinformation campaigns, we enjoy deception
• We dictate the screen, are the editor, and subscriber
• If we search long enough we will believe in any event as truth

Notes

• Did you lose contact with reality?
• Isn’t writing already a virtual reality?
• Everything conceals nothing

Introduction from “Then and Now“

• What is the Real?
• Abstracts for exchange
• “The Shift”
• The recycling of lost ideas (Jogging instead of walking)

AI – Video (from Digital Engine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgFtjfO_7Q

• Can generate realistic Images of humans
• GoogleAI can understand and explain jokes now (better than GPT-3)
• OpenAI can create images from text descriptions
• Can change images according to your description
• AI is better than human artists creating art in seconds
• AI creating comics
• AI can bring photos to life
• can take photos and create maps from it

Video talks more about: machine advancements, automation, robotaxis, are we approaching “the age of abundance”

“the future is here, it is not equally distributed”

A Comparison between Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek – Next Generation

Pike (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

Bible-Man (basically Jesus was already a super hero fantasy)

Badiou – Being and Event, Documentary and Reading

1. Sleep (8 hours)
2. Low Fat, Low Sugar
3. Sport
4. Friendship/Family
5. Learning
6. Work
7. Love
8. Meditation
9. Art
10. Freedom

1. Body
   1. Nutrition
   2. Sport
   3. Surrounding
2. Soul
   1. Meditation
   2. Friendship
   3. God
3. Spirit
   1. Teaching
   2. Finances
   3. Society

• Celebrities are nowadays more accessible, thus more human
• The status of being a star is levelled?

• Social Media celebrates the normal people
  People who have no skills and accidentally became famous
  Everyone could do it
• See Colin and Samir

Why does the sentence have to be false?

Putnam’s Argument

• Can we say: “Brains in a Vat”?
• The idea causes a contradiction: We can only be brains in the vat within in the current simulation
• Thus, the sentence does not represent reality but represents whatever is in the simulation
• It follows that we are not brains in a vat

Note

Does from that follow that we are not exposed to another form of exposure?