Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Moondog
From : Dennisk
Date : Tue Aug 18 2020 21:14:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Dennisk <=-

 Mo>   Re: Re: Neuralink
 Mo>   By: Dennisk to HusTler on Mon Aug 17 2020 11:22 am


 >
 >  Hu>  You guys watch and read too much Sci-Fi. Use your brain power to solve
 >  Hu> real world problems and stop debating futuristic nonense you've read
 >  Hu> about or saw in a movie. ;-) Do you have any ideas on how to eliminate
 >  Hu> racism and poverty in the world? Can AI and biological limbs help
 >  Hu> society with these issues?
 >
 > Greed is a bigger problem than those two.
 >

 Mo> In a way, some of the worst behaviors and conditions are rooted in
 Mo> basic emoti ons.  One of the things hat futurists look at more than
 Mo> politicians and social planners is the concept of culture.  Rascism and
 Mo> poverty are products of culture.  You can invest loads of money or push
 Mo> for improving education into a depressed area, but things won't change
 Mo> until you change the overall culture these areas created on their own.
 Mo> While I'm not a fna of Oprah Winfrey or any of her cult creations, her
 Mo> girls school in Africa is an attempt to build these girls up into self
 Mo> confident people who are not trapped by their surroundings.  There was
 Mo> controversy a few year's back about visitation rights by these girl's
 Mo> parents.  The claim was the school was stealing their souls or some
 Mo> crazy idea like that because they were isolated from the thing their
 Mo> family believed made them who they are.  Apparently rape, incest, and
 Mo> liberal amounts of physical and verbal abuse are ingredients they feel
 Mo> their daughters were missing.  It's hard to change a culture that does
 Mo> not want to be changed.

Poverty has always been with us, because of scarcity.  It could be argued it is
not necessary now, but we live in exceptional times of surplus, which isn't the
norm.  As for racism, the term is so overused I don't pay attention to it
anymore.  Just me existing in a place is considered "racism" by some, so nuts
to that.

The reason that I think these implants are dumb ideas, is because the person
making the idea lacks self-awareness and understanding of the human conditions.
 Our problems aren't information, knowledge, they are behavioural, and people
promote things for self serving interests, INCLUDING ideas such as implants and
dictatorships of the benevolent.  Everyone who imagines a utopia, imagines one
as per THEIR model. So it is automatically oppressive, because it is person X
who is imposing THEIR vision on us all.  I for example, want to live in a world
where different peoples still exist, where nations DO favour their own over
others and resist homogenisation.  I'm for the powerfull bucking social and
moral trends (as long as they don't complete power), for struggle, conflict,
antagonism.  Maybe, just maybe some people with 'deplorable' views are actually
holding views that make our world better, but we are too prejudiced to see it. 
The existence of that antagonism is good, as long as there is balance.

Development of a human being needs discipline, limits and self-awareness.  Our
world would be a better place when people learn to control themselves, manage
themselves, overcome themselves.  A soft life doesn't do that.

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