The document discusses finding meaning and purpose at our core. It questions whether we truly own our values or are waiting for external factors like technology to fulfill us. It suggests that our own happiness, growth, and the betterment of humanity depends on embracing personal responsibility and continually working to understand ourselves and live according to our deepest values. Rather than expecting an artificial intelligence to uplift us, we must develop goals of self-improvement and caring for others through challenging ourselves to grow, learn from challenges, and actively work to care.

1. The Heart of the Matter

2. What is it that moves us?
• Beneath all the tech, all the dreams, what is
the core, the value or values at the center?
• How clear are we on this value?
• How does our clarity and affirming it inform
our lives?
• Do we own it? Live it?
– Or are we waiting for “another life” as upload, or
augmented or for the FAI to “make it so”?

3. Where we are..
• Are we filled by this value?
• Or do we go through the motions of the
expected and feel not very plugged in?
• Do we hope but fear it will not be?
• Do we put our hope in externals, in
technology, in FAI?
• What of our own responsibility, our own
power to re-make our lives according to what
we most value?

4. What if it is up to you..
• Whether you become more sane..
• Whether your life is more joyful and more
meaningful..
• Whether the world around you works better..
• Whether the wondrous possibilities are
embraced or ignored, affirmed or feared..
• Whether you are uplifted or not..
• Whether humanity lives ever more abundantly or
has a future at all..

5. Why expect FAI to do it?
• If I don’t care enough for myself..
– For whether I find and embrace my own heart dream
– To maintain the right mix of self-acceptance, forgiving and
growth challenge
– To take the risks required to grow into fullness or possibly
experience or at least face pain
• Then why do I expect the FAI to do this for me?
– How can it if I am unable or unwilling..
• to be challenged,
• to grow through challenges,
• To learn and know my own heart?

6. Why is it put outside?
• FAI or God or the elite or the technocracy
– Disowning personal power, responsibility
– Waiting for the great parent figure to make it all
better?
– What does our uplifting, our betterment require from
us?
– How do we open to it?
• Maybe in another lifetime?
– Some upload future
– After the dewar
– Whatever..

7. What does “friendly look like”?
• Many opinions but..
– A continuous goal of uplifting humanity
• Individually as well as as a species
• What of us?
– Do you have a goal of your own uplift, of continued growth?
– Is this your goal for your loved ones?
– For all human beings or all beings?
– If so, what do you do in support of this?
• What is your practice?
• How does it change what you do and how you do it?
– If not, why not?
• If not then why do you dream of some great being doing for you what you
don’t seem to care that much about?
• How do we learn to actively care?