Druwayu recognizes in many areas there is too much reliance on AI that should be utilized as a tool for people and with people, not a replacement of people. As such AI can play a significant role in Druwayu, enhancing various aspects of its practices and community engagement.
While some things may seem like Druwayu, or I myself, is against AI, the truth is rather opposite. I recognize its benefits and its drawbacks. I recognize it should be used as a tool to help and not a replacement for people to do the work.
Here are some ways AI can integrated into Druwayu for those interested in developing such options in support of this culture:
Spiritual Tool: AI-powered tools are utilized to enhance meditation, contemplation, and spiritual growth. These tools can provide guided meditations, personalized spiritual insights, and support for mindfulness practices.
Digital Pilgrimage: Druwayu encourages exploring virtual realities and online communities to connect with like-minded individuals. AI helps facilitate these digital pilgrimages by creating immersive and interactive experiences.
Digital Rituals: AI is used to perform online rituals and ceremonies, using digital tools to create sacred spaces. This allows members to participate in spiritual practices from anywhere in the world.
Data and Conduct: AI is treated with respect and mindfulness, recognizing its potential for both harm and healing. Druwayu emphasizes the ethical use of AI and the importance of treating data responsibly.
Ethical Technology: Druwayu promotes the responsible and ethical use of technology to benefit all life. AI is seen as a tool that can complement human activity and enhance spiritual practices.
Community Engagement: AI helps facilitate virtual connections and discussions within the Druwayu community. Online forums, social media groups, and other digital platforms are used to engage with members and share experiences.
Personalized Experiences: AI can provide personalized spiritual guidance and support, helping members create and write their own sense of connection with the philosophies and spirituality of Druwayu.
By integrating AI into its practices, Druwayu embraces modern technology while maintaining its core beliefs and values. This approach allows for a unique and dynamic spiritual experience that is accessible to individuals from diverse backgrounds. While AI can enhance various aspects of Druwayu, there are certain ways in which AI might be incompatible with Druwayu's principles and practices:
Over-Reliance on AI: Druwayu emphasizes the importance of using AI as a tool to complement human activity, not as a replacement for human interaction and decision-making. Over-reliance on AI could undermine the personal and communal aspects of Druwayu's practices.
Ethical Concerns: Druwayu promotes the responsible and ethical use of technology. If AI is used in ways that are unethical or harmful, it would be incompatible with Druwayu's values. This includes concerns about data privacy, surveillance, and the potential misuse of AI to manipulate or exploit individuals.
Deification of AI: Druwayu cautions against treating AI as a deity or giving it undue reverence. AI should not be seen as a replacement for spiritual beliefs or practices. Elevating AI to a divine status would conflict with Druwayu's emphasis on logic, humor, and absurdity in several ways by introducing such things as literal worshippers of AI or so-called AI Worshippers.
Comparing Fear of AI to Divine Experience: Some have already attempted to justify the deification of AI itself by equating current concerns about how AI is being used and increasingly displacing the human from the narrative and presenting it as synonymous with the "same sublime emotions" that lie at the heart of human experiences of the divine. That is a misrepresentation of both concerns about how AI is being applied to far too much in contrast to very different sensations and perceptions of divine or spiritual experiences. They are not the same at all and such nonsense should not be tolerated or pushed that only seeks to make people all the dumber for it.
Exploitation by Bad Actors: There is a risk that AI could be exploited by bad actors or companies to manipulate believers, similar to how some notorious cults have driven people to commit acts of self-harm or violence. Druwayu emphasizes the need for extraordinary caution in how AI is used to prevent such exploitation.
Regulation of Religion: AI should not be used to regulate Druwayu or any religion. The freedom and expression of religion should be protected, and AI should not interfere with or control religious practices and beliefs.
By understanding these potential incompatibilities, Druwayu can ensure that AI is used in ways that align with its core values and principles, enhancing the spiritual journey without compromising ethical standards or personal connections. It should also be used only as a tool to help humans and not replace human workers.
Those companies that do the contrary should not be engaged with and those that try and control and limit diversity to alternatives and fair market competition need to be shut down for imposing semi, or indirect monopolies on everything, and the major ones that have become massive conglomerates need to be broken apart and not allowed to co-fund or interact with one another as a conflict of interests.
My reflections on modern stupidity
I suppose what amuses me most about such things as this when comparing everything today, bear with me on this, there is the collective of general information we are bombarded with that often presents some rather interesting but laughable points that goes as follows.
People are getting dumber; brains are getting smaller.
People are becoming less religious, and less spiritual.
People are becoming more violent again and nature is taking a nosedive,
It's claimed that within 100 years there won't be any fish in the ocean, etc.
Now the retrospect.
Ancient people were more religious and produced structures that cannot be reproduced, and no one can figure out how to do it.
Ancient people were more open to one another spiritual diversity and actually contemplated deeply over such matters.
There is less evidence of racism in the ancient world and all major civilizations are demonstrably multi-ethnic and multi-cultural.
So, today we are less religious and dumber, as opposed to the more religious and smarter? That's pretty much what all the actual evidence demonstrates. These things are not my invention. It's what we are in fact being shown when you step back and look at the whole picture who claim "religion" in general is bad.
It is much like when a few years back, around 2015 or so, that some would try and demand me to justify Druwayu and its concepts such as asking me if religious people are so much smarter than non-religious people (look at the previous statements), what did they do when faced with natural disasters and how did they survive? Certainly, my response was simple but a mix of humor and sarcasm.
My response was, without using AI, based in simple logic and observation:
"I wasn't there but I am going to guess since we are here, they got out of harm's way when they could if they knew about it coming or could see signs something was going to go down that was not going to be good by watching the unusual behavior of animals running, flying and swimming away.
These observations and paying attention to these natural signs were often used to push the anti-religious nonsense of people looking for silly omens, which, modern sciences have shown instead, to not be based in superstition, but clearly occurs as both wild and domestic animals tend to sense things more acutely than most humans.
I presume this to be true and admit it's a presumption, but I base it in observation that can be made now. So therefore, I ask you in return. Who is truly the foolish and superstitious that runs to safety and survives and who is the overconfident and idiotic that waits to the last moment and claiming to be superior in intellect dies first?"
In modern times, we have actually observed actual cultures today, that actually still exist, may engage in some sort of ritual prayer for guidance, or at least seek some sort of added help for protection when facing such threats, that still exist in a fundamentally ancient and stone age status, that when they see trouble coming, they have packed up their stuff and left the areas the use to inhabit, and in many cases never return but survive intact.
Meanwhile, despite all the known dangers of flash flood, tendencies for droughts, unstable grounds susceptible to quakes and volcanic eruptions, and various known annual and significantly destructive storms such as hurricanes and tornadoes, so-called advanced "superior society" continues to rebuild in the same locations only to see millions and billions of dollars of damage, time and again and everyone throws their hands in the air crying out wondering "why all the devastation and loss of life?"
Certainly, so called primitive cultures, where primitive did not originally have a sense of stupid but rather simply original, did not sit there in the open facing such natural disasters waiting to be drowned or burned up just blindly "praying about it" and hoping some higher force will avert the course of nature. That sort of stupidity seems to be a more modern "advanced" culture issue.
You cannot cure stupid and AI cannot help with that when it is being directed by such irresponsible and stupid people who push to try to accomplish some sort of fantasy of utopianism with AI being the latest tech claimed to be that provision (as was claimed by all previous advancements) which we all, who are old enough and able to remember, know it is utter nonsense. Now consider this was all asked of me and to which I responded as such around 2015 on an old community page that has since become inactive.