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It strikes me that saying Buddhism is Eastern just because it originated in India and is primarily found in Eastern countries is to ignore Buddhism in the very process of tossing it around as an argumentative prop.
There have been Buddhist teachers in the West such as Shunryu Suzuki and D.T. Suzuki (no relation to each other), both of whom taught Zen Buddhism in the US. Buddhism, while global in its scope, has largely been an Eastern phenomenon since its inception.
Was your purpose here to correct me or to expand upon the point I was making? The way this is written it could be either and I'm not entirely sure you even picked up on my point.
I thought that my example of the two Suzukis was fairly obvious: that Buddhism can't be confined to an entirely Eastern locale.
That clears up that you missed my point.
Which was? :? Your initial statement about using Buddhism as an "argumentative prop" isn't sinking into my mind I suppose.
I just found it interesting that in the course of taking someone else to task for ignoring Buddhism when determining if Japan is an eastern country he himself ignored the essence of Buddhism. The only thing inherently "eastern" about Buddhism is the nature of its geographical spread from its point of origin.
Japan is Far East. The idea of Western has nothing to do with being industrialized or Christianity. It's about what part of the globe the country is situated on.
Genie's out of the bottle now. We're on the cusp of a whole new era.I am defintely an AI hater, but Chat GPT did a great job.
Now kill it.
Genie's out of the bottle now. We're on the cusp of a whole new era.
Definitely it sounds like a saleable screenplay.ChatGPT is a problem in itself. But I think we are still several steps away from viability of the AI that is going to get us killed.
My biggest concern is AI killing machines under human control. Imagine someone like me who wants to see the world burn in control of an AI flying robot army of small but deadly and smart drones, programming them to recognize and attack world leaders. If they are solar powered they could fly around for years, maybe recharging high up in trees sometimes. Even if I died, they would carry on. And heck, I could even have a system that monitors the net to identify new leaders as they come up using AI.
But, of course, if one can do that, one can make AI bots that just kill any and all humans....its just a question of volume.
If you want to read some very good fiction along these lines, try the Jubilee Trilogy by Eli K P William, a Canadian guy living in Kanto who has written a series of books about a future dystopian Tokyo. The nanobots appear in the second and third books.ChatGPT is a problem in itself. But I think we are still several steps away from viability of the AI that is going to get us killed.
My biggest concern is AI killing machines under human control. Imagine someone like me who wants to see the world burn in control of an AI flying robot army of small but deadly and smart drones, programming them to recognize and attack world leaders. If they are solar powered they could fly around for years, maybe recharging high up in trees sometimes. Even if I died, they would carry on. And heck, I could even have a system that monitors the net to identify new leaders as they come up using AI.
But, of course, if one can do that, one can make AI bots that just kill any and all humans....its just a question of volume.
Thank you!If you want to read some very good fiction along these lines, try the Jubilee Trilogy by Eli K P William, a Canadian guy living in Kanto who has written a series of books about a future dystopian Tokyo. The nanobots appear in the second and third books.