Philosophy

I recently discovered a fascinating prompt on the internet that transforms AI conversations into something resembling a soul-level coaching session. The concept is simple but profound: ask ChatGPT to use what it knows about you from your past conversations, or ask Claude to look into your conversation history, then feed it this framework. Watch it perform what the prompt calls “soul surgery”—a deep, unflinching analysis of your patterns, blind spots, and unconscious behaviors. ...

TLDR: Conservatives believe in jungle law (survival of the fittest), while socialists risk creating dependency We need a third way: guarantee human dignity while demanding everyone contribute more than they receive Five pillars—healthcare, food, shelter, education, and the obligation to give back more than you take—create a society that’s both more humane and more resilient than either extreme offers The Dead End of Left vs. Right We’re stuck in a tired debate. The right looks at society and sees the jungle—survival of the strongest, competition as the organizing principle, let the weak fall away. There’s an honesty to this: nature is brutal, competition drives evolution, comfort breeds weakness. ...

TLDR: Every morning you trust the floor exists without checking—that’s faith, not reason We’ve never met the number “2” or visited “the past,” yet base our lives on these abstractions Science celebrates these tools while ignoring they’re built on pure belief Project management taught me we always work backward from faith in an unseen future If we all share this foundational belief system, we should build societies that reflect it The Floor Beneath Your Feet You wake up. Your feet hit the floor. No structural analysis, no existential crisis, no flashlight to confirm reality. Just pure, unconscious faith that the world continues to exist between yesterday’s last glance and this morning’s first step. ...

There’s a phrase in Latin that refuses to let us hide: hic et nunc—here and now. Whatever your story—your religion, your cosmology, your philosophy of where souls come from or where they’re headed—today you are a human among humans. You woke up inside this species, on this planet, with agency. That is enough to give you a duty. Respect the origin story. Respect the destination. But protect the present. I’m convinced of something simple: if, by whatever cosmic lottery, your consciousness ended up in a living human, then you are responsible for what happens to us—now. Not responsible for everything, but responsible to someone. Responsible for the choices you touch, the systems you influence, the harms you prevent, the goods you can advance. ...

TLDR: Labels like “left/right” or “elite/worker” don’t just describe reality—they create and reinforce the divisions we claim to oppose Inverting our language (“cancer got this person” vs “person has cancer”) externalizes conditions rather than making them defining features AI could amplify collective wisdom without the distorting lens of political categorization, helping us see each other as humans first Small linguistic shifts can create cascading changes in how we perceive reality and relate to each other In a world increasingly defined by division, we find ourselves trapped in a paradoxical cycle: the categories we create to understand our society reinforce the divisions we claim to oppose. Left or right, Democrat or Republican, worker or elite, pro-choice or pro-life—these labels don’t just describe reality; they actively shape it. ...