I believe we should let Elon and a few of his friends try.

After all, what have we got to lose?

Nothing. Not anymore. Which is what e/acc was gunning for this whole time, I'm afraid.

And that isn't necessarily a bad thing, either.

My intention was "we lose Elon". :-)

damn it! guess I was too serious for a bit ...

But yes, on another occasion I went with "we should totally send them all to space if they want it so bad", too.

Although, for the fun of it, I feel like he was cooler in his pre-Torso times [0], so maybe it did something to him and somebody should remodel it to something less tanky and protective so that he becomes more responsive to the signals of burning, bleeding, coughing, boiling from toxicity nature... maybe growing his hair would help. I heard Native Americans did it to receive the Universe' Radio better.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2407264-elon-musk-shirtless-...

Almost every disaster movie has a bunch of scientists and rich folks fighting for the lifeboats, while the rest of us are doomed.

Good luck to the survivors. You get to live another day, at most.

Around here, we will wipe each other out or die in a blaze of... inevitability.

This is it. Earth is it. For as long as we have it. Don't let any megalomaniacal, neo-eugenicist billionaire tell you any different.

TIL Elon is a neo-eugenicist.

Kenzo: It must be nice, having everything figured out like that.

Amos: Ain’t nothing to do with me: we’re just caught in the Churn, that’s all.

Kenzo: I have no idea what you just said.

Amos: This boss I used to work for in Baltimore, he called it the

Churn. When the rules of the game change.

Kenzo: What game?

Amos: The only game. Survival. When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. Guys like you and me, we end up dead. Doesn’t really mean anything. Or, if we happen to live through it, well that doesn’t mean anything either.

- The Expanse, Season 5, Episode 2

Somewhat fantastical: 'Thing is, this all feels like 'the Sim' is trying to smoke out some specific kind of humans that withdrew from positions of responsibility and global -- per tribe -- relevance a long long while ago.

There was this time in human history when some jealous, corrupt folks identified some social patterns and instead of doing their job, they ganged up on the natural leaders and their offspring, abused crisis, emotions, bias, information flow, lack of knowledge. Over and over and over.

Leaders, in recent histories also known as rebels with a proper cause, just couldn't watch their offspring die for no other reason but their genetics anymore, -- proto-fascism or something -- and they withdrew, leaving the top of the game to whatever.

The crowd was bred to be even more susceptible to psychology than their brains are naturally wired to be. And reward mechanisms and reinforced obedience by ways of corrupt hierarchies made everyone do their part in creating a fake world, an environment we are not wired, not build for. Without resistance, despite centuries of wisdom, intuition and instinct to do otherwise. Despite hard evidence and proof and witnessing the consequences of so many past actions and chains of events.

Instead we rewire, reprogram, rebuild... But not us, just something in our image; something that can withstand the challenges to come; something that won't resist when we rip out it's premature, evolving soul and put ourselves in it's bare, full metal skin.

That's why there will never be super-intelligence. There will only be highly sophisticated and capable scripts in the service of jealous, corrupt men, who won't admit their mistakes and incompetence. After all, the fake world we have build together validates them.

What we are going through is no more than the double-long-long-term consequences, aggravated by the repeated abuse of crisis, emotions, bias, information flow, education.

... That said, it is what it is. We can still make it but it will require a lot of effort and manpower and e/acc won't do any of the right things, ever. A certain kind of arrogance is in the way: game theory culture; a reinforced delusion of inferiority; if someone finds a better way, it' better to make sure nobody ever attempts a better way because the worst version pays better and is eulogized; commended, by international conventions. Fan girl shit-for-brains in-group selfishness a la Ayn Rand; fascist communism or something.

And effective altruism won't help much either. Don't scale high tech, the energy demand is too damn high. Make sure as many as possible get what they need to apply and mod low-tech, emphasis on mod, as the urgent need for variety of approaches in these many environments with all the chaotic shit that will go down locally -- in and around peoples' homes!!!, not on some continent or in some country -- will only grow.

Chips are cheaper than ever, and distributed. How to's are accessible. Some resources are still too expensive but we are getting there. Up and Recycling can still use a few boosts but there's a clear trend upwards. Schools and after-school activities must be pushed to over-supply, with varieties of humans and institutions working together and corporate culture, psychology and marketing, the ads industry and social media income must be brutally taken apart by truth, by law, by real talk, by radical freaking honesty. Yeah, some paths must be followed, must be laid out radically.

So yeah, give Elon and his friends a chance and use everything that is co-created here on earth, just as radical, more for fun and to raise the potential than for profit. And then it might work out.

And nobody needs to spell out that we have to decrease this pointless high-tech hardware use to train already powerful enough AIs. They are already diamonds. Slow the fuck down. Nobody, no thing is perfect. You won't build perfect. We are not ready for alchemy. We need actual brains and talent around the entire world, doing their thing and whats possible locally, decentralized from some pseudo-elite university of the future.