{"id":29272,"date":"2026-11-11T17:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=29272"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T01:23:55","slug":"another-side-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/11\/11\/another-side-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Side of AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An insightful Facebook group called Oddly Human seems AI driven, yet still seems very wise;<\/li>\n<li>At the opposite extreme are people who are &#8220;not even wrong,&#8221; as this person who wonders why gravity was even invented;<\/li>\n<li>Christian Nationalists are not changing their plans; and Christian antipathy toward empathy goes way back, remembering &#8220;bleeding heart liberals.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p>More and more content, everywhere, seems AI-driven. Is this an example? I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook, Oddly Human, 9 Nov 2026:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a fascinating video, some 15 minutes long, that explores psychopathy and human evolution. Why didn&#8217;t evolution weed out psychopaths, who are so damaging to social stability? A simplex question that has a complex answer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3Dpfbid0gxS9VFpTMTJ9cwG1pGzb6NPM7ZJMNyTLYppv6Pq2mYgPdMJb5nQKUKfd4oj87Qosl%26id%3D61595289713794&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The answer is there are trade-offs between traits in human nature that are beneficial or detrimental to varying degrees, and which still contribute to genetic survival. Similar arguments could be made about autism (which this group posted about today) and homosexuality. I find this piece compelling and succinct.<\/p>\n<p>But who is\/are Oddly Human? It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61595289713794\">Facebook page<\/a> gives no personal information, other than the fact it was founded only a month ago, and there are lots of signs of &#8220;AI content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what does that mean? Can AI be used to distill current knowledge into 15-minute animated video-bites? That would be awesome; it makes current abstruse knowledge easily available to the masses. But &#8212; who is behind this? I&#8217;ve seen similar groups post similar knowledge summaries. Will keep a close watch on this.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Still in the world there are people who are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Not_even_wrong\">not even wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Ben Shapiro reel on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1117706980965722%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t need gravity. What if it was never invented?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another example of the limitations of human cognition.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Briefly.<\/p>\n<p>These people are not changing their minds, or ambitions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/JmX01jk0B6p43RvoUoGYfx7W23s=\/0x0:3973x2235\/976x549\/media\/img\/mt\/2026\/11\/2026_11_09_The_Far_Right_is_Moving_on_From_Trump_Ali_Breland\/original.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Atlantic, Ali Breland, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/11\/christian-nationalism-trump-elections\/689373\/?gift=XfexBTwkFuLuJM4vzaif69UkhCRWCfpcrndLVeARmwI&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\">The Christian Nationalists Have a Plan<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Movement leaders see last week\u2019s defeat of Republicans as the prelude to a far-right takeover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They will fail.<\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p>This conservative\/Christian antipathy toward empathy, despite Jesus, goes way back.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/fa\/20\/fa2069bf-dcc2-4609-a3ef-598d2e50517d\/content\/images\/size\/w1272\/2026\/11\/1280px-The_Good_Samaritan_-1826-_-_Guillaume_Bodinier.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>OnlySky, Adam Lee, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/onlys.ky\/christians-against-empathy\/\">Christians against empathy<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;The religious right says out loud that it&#8217;s bad to care about other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s summed up in the first lines of this essay:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do-gooders. Bleeding heart liberals. Social justice warriors. Virtue signalers. Woke crusaders.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve spent any time on internet comments sections, you&#8217;ve probably heard these insults wielded by conservatives against liberals and progressives. All of them are derogatory, and all are premised on the unstated idea that caring too much is a bad trait that deserves criticism and mockery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why I think conservatives exhibit an unresolved clash between tribal values, which they primarily display, and their devotion to the Christian Bible, wherein Jesus says many things that would ameliorate tribal values. Care for your neighbors, the downtrodden, etc.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve complained about &#8220;bleeding heart liberals&#8221; for decades. What does that phrase imply about their own values?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insightful Facebook group called Oddly Human seems AI driven, yet still seems very wise; At the opposite extreme are people who are &#8220;not even wrong,&#8221; as this person who wonders why gravity was even invented; Christian Nationalists are not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/11\/11\/another-side-of-ai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-human-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29274,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29272\/revisions\/29274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}