As I have written 5 years ago: Our society is collapsing faster than AGI is making progress. After thousands of years of wars and two world wars we are still maintaining the same cyclically collapsing monetary system and we are still stuck in the culture generated by centuries of being stuck in this insane system which is bound to induce ever increasing levels of poverty, anxiety, egoism and insanity. We are living in a profoundly sick society and the next collapse comes with mathematical certainty.
The two major factors are: The average person is incapable of understanding how our monetary system is destroying our minds, culture and society in every way possible while at the same time lacking the empathy it would take in order to do something about it even without said intellectual understanding. At the end of every cycle we get "leaders" like Hitler or Trump ... embodying the insanity of large-scale structural anxiety, poverty and hopelessness ... leaders who thrive on a profoundly sick societal foundation. Without the help of AGI it seems that we are bound to relive the same cyclical insanity over and over and over again ... and over-population is just a symptom of our monetary system as well ... it's mostly the symptom of structural fear and our insane concept of what a family should look like: tiny groups of people in competition with other tiny groups of people ... forever trying to protect their status and accumulated wealth against one another ... induced by structural artificial scarcity and structural competition for survival. "The few who could understand the system will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests." -- John Sherman, Rothschild http://sacred-economics.com/read-online/ On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 3:45 AM MP via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > > We need an AGI to save us from ourselves. Period. We need one we can bring > up from the state of an infant into a scalable superhuman system. > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T56889bf27bc7ed87-Mf99e3bd9f17c023af932658f> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T56889bf27bc7ed87-Mad2f52a7efacc31c419b97c7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
