“How to Tell A Human (Naskar Test)
How to tell a human from ape, when both look the same?
Look for the creature that considers everyone outside their religion a heathen, and everyone outside their culture a heretic - that's a textbook ape.
Now look for the being that finds the same human spirit in every culture, religion and nation - that right there, is a rare human specimen.
How to tell a human from robot, when both look the same?
Look for the contraption that considers everything outside logic, without value - that's a lifeless robot.
Look for the soul that knows when to, and when not to, apply logic in life and society - that's a living human.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“What’s true of counterfeiting money should also be true of counterfeiting humans. If governments took decisive action to protect trust in money, it makes sense to take equally decisive measures to protect trust in humans. Prior to the rise of AI, one human could pretend to be another, and society punished such frauds. But society didn’t bother to outlaw the creation of counterfeit humans, since the technology to do so didn’t exist. Now that AI can pass itself off as human, it threatens to destroy trust between humans and to unravel the fabric of society. Dennett suggests, therefore, that governments should outlaw fake humans as decisively as they have previously outlawed fake money.[54]
The law should prohibit not just deepfaking specific real people—creating a fake video of the U.S. president, for example—but also any attempt by a nonhuman agent to pass itself off as a human. If anyone complains that such strict measures violate freedom of speech, they should be reminded that bots don’t have freedom of speech. Banning human beings from a public platform is a sensitive step, and democracies should be very careful about such censorship. However, banning bots is a simple issue: it doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, because bots don’t have rights.[55]
None of this means that democracies must ban all bots, algorithms, and AIs from participating in any discussion. Digital agents are welcome to join many conversations, provided they don’t pretend to be humans. For example, AI doctors can be extremely helpful. They can monitor our health twenty-four hours a day, offer medical advice tailored to our individual medical conditions and personality, and answer our questions with infinite patience. But the AI doctor should never try to pass itself off as a human.”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Avoid creating a hierarchy of human suffering as if compassion were a finite resource.”
Source: Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
“It is important to address the (mis)perception that systems research is non-humanistic. To offer a short response, it is vital to remember that our civilization — a society where people live in towns or cities, communicate by writing, and build monumental structures , is a system connected by our relationships. The subject of systems cannot be more human.”
Source: 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
“This then is your challenge - to take the initiative and dare to be divine - not as a perfect kind of superhuman beyond all suffering, but as a fallible, mortal, ordinary, but fiercely courageous human, down to earth and rooted in the earth.”
Source: Prosperity: A Guide to your Pearl Sequence
“...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)”
Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
“Life teaches us lessons every minute we live it
Its entirely on you to learn from them and master your way of life.”
Source: A Broken Woman: From a child that was loved dearly into a teen that has lost her strength
“Dangerous is a society that relies on laws for moral guidance.”
“You said it earlier, life is so easy nowadays, everything comes ready, there is no need to struggle. So, it is good to struggle by creating,” Kathy said with a wet voice.”
Source: Human
“Solar flares do affect human mental and physical health in many ways.”