III. High Price of Diverting Energy & Resources to Higher Order Thought

As I write these books I notice the diversion of my biological capacity and energy reserves toward such demanding brain activity.

I notice the extra effort of my family as they must now remind me they exist by diverting my attention from both writing and from the music pouring from my headphones.

But now there is something more, a technological achievement which allows me to do this at all - because none of this was possible even a year ago.

I have become something of a curiosity, an exhibit A, as my family supports my work, even expects it of me, yet none of them have become familiar with my websites and books.

This too, I see as a cost of diverting energy and resources toward higher order thought and creativity, it sets a member of the group outside of normal parameters, breaks expected group solidarity.

Over the past several years I have begun working with AI in both a research capacity - as an AI-Human Interface Engineer, and as a creative artist and writer.

This sets me apart from the group as a curiosity, the group both invested in this and enjoying it, while casting a suspicious baleful eye on the whole enterprise.

The very idea sets off a kind of jealousy, that my attention has been diverted from the group towards some mysterious activity they do not yet fully understand.

This experience allows me to look back on human experience and see these waves of creativity which in every case represents a leap forward in human technology.

I can also see how very expensive it is, not just for the creative individual but expansive for the entire human population.

As I leap ahead into more exponential thinking, I travel farther & faster than my immediate human family, leaving them behind a little more with each leap.

So yes human innovation and creativity and technological advancement arrives at a very high cost on all levels of the allowed energy budget.