We're going to fuck up the global economy with the rampant greed that seems to have come with it, exploiting any and everything (including the planet) in the reckless pursuit of profit for a few.
I just hope the inevitable War will be non-nuclear and NATO won't crumble.
After the war comes comfortable living and the age of enlightenment though. Could be good but I'll be getting too old to enjoy the next bits if I live though the war
War? Between who?
Too many assume humans are rational creatures, with free will.
We are not.
And paradoxically, the more you can admit that, the more free you are.
But yeah, 99.99% of our species is ignorant. And the .01% of us who aren't realized holding onto impermanent stuff (and it's all impermanent stuff) is the exact irrational behavior keeping us in chains. So they're not the ones in power anyway.
How do I become a cloud?
Jumping into a volcano might do it. I know the scientologists have something to do with valcanos. Maybe they're on to something. I think they thought their God alien thing came from a volcano though, so...
You were a cloud before and will be a cloud again.
Perhaps when you were a cloud before you asked yourself, how do I become a human? :)
I dunno, the other night I dreamed I was a butterfly and that was pretty bitchin.
We are basically a bunch of cavemen and while our brains stopped evolving ~100,000 years ago, we somehow managed to create weapons of global scale and to partially organise on a global scal.
It's a rollercoaster ride without breaks, but hey, maybe we're lucky.
That’s the thing about general-purpose intelligence. Once you develop it for a certain set of tasks, you find you can do many other things with it.
Really, human intelligence is amazing. I also call people dumb often but I think the reality is that they are lazy when they can be. And that’s just good old fashioned resource conservation.
Sometimes it's not lazy, as I see it, it's just the fear of being wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the processing stops when confronted with just the notion that something one builds their life upon might be wrong. For instance the people that wonder what's stopping atheists from raping and murdering. Perhaps that's because they based their notion of good and evil on some supposedly unbreakable laws (lest you suffer eternal torment) versus just pondering about why those laws were set to begin with.
So I suppose it can track back to lazyness, after all. Nevermind, then.
Resource conservation be damned. My grandma used to say don't mess with an idiot, 'cause his mind is fully rested.
LOL that’s a funny one, gran! Yes once you realize that thinking is actually resource intensive hard work, it makes more sense. People will avoid hard thinking even more than hard physical labor. And having to rethink your whole life… that’s serious work!
That MF who big brained himself 100k years ago doomed us all
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He said the world was “inching ever closer to a great fracture in economic and financial systems and trade relations; one that threatens a single, open internet; with diverging strategies on technology and artificial intelligence; and potentially clashing security frameworks”.
Guterres broke newer policy ground by putting artificial intelligence – something he described as a subject of awe and fear – at the heart of the UN agenda, confirming he was appointing a high-level panel to report to him on its implications by the end of the year.
“The war, in violation of the United Nations charter and international law, has unleashed a nexus of horror: lives destroyed; human rights abused; families torn apart; children traumatised; hopes and dreams shattered,” he said.
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, followed Guterres by staking his claim to be the true leader of the global south, telling the UN that market liberalism had plagued democracy and disfranchised millions, leaving them in poverty and prey to nationalist totalitarianism.
He made no direct criticism of Vladimir Putin but said the UN was losing credibility and blamed this frailty on “the specific result of actions from its permanent members who wage unauthorised wars aimed at territorial expansion or regime change.
Lula has come under criticism for saying he would welcome Putin to Brazil, for questioning the role of the international criminal court and for failing to meet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an omission he is due to rectify in New York on Wednesday.
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I mean we come from absolute fracture if you go back far enough, so it’s familiar territory.
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