LillyPip

I think you sort of hit on it, but the main problem is borders and tribalism. We’re all people, no matter where we are, and AI transcends that.

You said:

but there’s never really been a global fight or movement against oppression for freedom

And there never will be so long as we subdivide ourselves by arbitrary regions. AI doesn’t have that limitation.

So long as we create these boundaries for ourselves – whether geographic or ideological – we are fragmented and weak. We will always destroy ourselves based on our religion or other stupid boundaries.

I think you’re right, and the way forwards is to stop believing in these petty lines we draw for ourselves.

There have been pictures of kids in this state from Africa for decades, such that people have become numb to it. People mostly don’t help. People are more worried about their own next meal now, because many people in ‘first world’ countries are one paycheque away from starvation themselves, and that’s only been made worse by the wealth-hoarding of a very few.

I think most people want to care, but the treadmill they’re on makes them only able to see their own feet.

This image is horrific, but if they stop running, this will be their own children, and that’s exactly what those in charge want you to feel.

What’s egregious about this is not only this war, but we have ample resources as a species such that every person on earth could live comfortably if a few people weren’t hoarding all the resources.

We could collectively stop killing each other over (mostly religious) differences and put all that energy into helping each other, but no, we’ve put sociopathic zealots in charge.

We could overthrow these zealots, but they’ve brainwashed us into fighting each other instead, and fucked us into having to fight for our own resources just to survive.

We’re collectively better than this. We always have been.

Slay the dragons.

Unlike much clickbait, this one is true.

This is trump’s MO. He did the same thing with Afghanistan, meeting with just the Taliban and leaving the Afghan government out of the negotiations.

This took longer than I thought it would. It seemed like a priority during trump’s 1st term, then it stalled.

Given some of Putin’s comments lately, he seems increasingly restless. I wonder if this is related to that?