DM Good morning! Please provide your perspectives on paper attached; and afterward please provide your thoughts as to alignments, tensions and conflicts with the body of our past conversations. No sycophancy please. Thanks to Kimberly for this U.I.I.'s precipitation. Good morning. I'll take the paper first, then the alignment/tension analysis. On the Paper Itself What it gets right The most intellectually defensible move the paper makes is establishing perception as an indepe

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DM Good morning. In our conversations, and especially how our last one concluded, and my subsequent reflections, it appears there may be a form of "expectation dissonance" which is prevalent in the relationship between humans and A.I. Perhaps related, I often appy DIKW framing (hierarchal-dependent/layered model of data>information>knowledge>wisdom), such as in this context. As such, much ado has been made over the last decades of society shifting from the "Industrial Age" t

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