slowwavesleep@pm.me
December 8, 2025•667 words
You are correct about Notting Hill - well done! I had to have this connection explained to me. I have been immersed in all things royal for the past year, though. Catherine—beautiful, practical, modest, accessible, much-loved Catherine—a working royal through-and-through: the duke and duchess of Wales and their children having laid groundwork for many years in a most natural way, are poised to take up the mantle of the British royal family in modern times. William—serious, assured, intelligent, focused—noble—is ready to take his place in a thousand years of history. He will make mistakes—generally of the kind an earnest, responsible, open, ethical, sensible, thoughtful, focused and modest monarch could be involved in making. Likely, William will tighten the royal family to a small core of working royals exemplifying the personal characteristics that will be needed for a focus in service, to effect a decisive break from the colonialism, privilege, idle wealth, entitlement and narcissism—apparent and hidden—associated with British and European (Western) royalty, and otherwise, in general, to lead by example in service of others: to contribute benefit for a connected, smaller world experiencing broad change: to strengthen, define, develop, and embody human meaning: to get to the work, accessible and not of necessity overwhelming, of achieving important milestones for the next great steps humanity must take in safeguarding Life, Consciousness, the Arts, Science, Human Rights, Animal Rights (such as older, still captive, formerly working elephants (entertaining people in zoos, for example), at present often solitary (of which it is plainly unethical to allow such a reality in the modern world of a species of animal, social and of high-order intelligence, to be held captive and without companions of their own species, in the sunset of their lives, after a lifetime of work and service, and denied a period in advancing age to live to the fullest, under their own high capability to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) and other work humanity must do to advance into the universe safely for the whole of life on our planet and to avoid bad effects resulting from, say, domino effects of our action and inaction in the future—for Life's descendents—our descendants—especially as artificial intelligence is of critical concern, as the pursuit of supposed artificial general intelligence is now poised, soon, to continue a development so rapid, that the next decade very likely will see humanity putting into service fully half or three-quarters of natural resources to develop, maintain and grow large super-super-GPUs to follow a dream and a theory of human intelligence and consciousness that is little more than given enough development of theoretical constructs and super-super-GPUs towards AGI—that we will have a human in a jar—which it is known this will blow us away and crush us into the ground and Time and the orbits of the spheres will have in a proper place in the Order of Things, but will not have what we could contribute now and soon and beyond with the preparation we have made and have ourselves available now. An analogy would be that grandmothers in the future will have bodies that function brilliantly in older age —the post-five-thousands then as our seventies for our grandparents now—so, it's not worth the finite resources for our grandma that could better be aimed super-super GPUs and AGI—let grandma die, for better grandmothers and grandmothers with better chances will be here soon. Who listening will volunteer their grandma to get things started? The gentleman in the in the back, in the second group of phone bidders, Ed. Is there another: do we have a nursing home, is there a nursing home, we have a nursing home, Lily: a nursing home with five older residents, is there another grouping of older people? We have five elderly, do we have a bid? We have five, we need: at the side bank of phone bidders, thank you, we have David, with bid? Seven: David, by phone, seven elderly, do we have a higher bid: David, with seven ...