Yes, the Greek shipwreck was horrific but the Titan(ic) story sadly got much
more media attention.One aspect is the rich/poor divide: the Titan submersible
contained 5 very rich passengers, while the ship from Africa was full of poor
people looking for a better life. African migrants are for Europe what Mexican
migrants are for the USA. People are afraid that there will be too many which
take away their jobs and their appartments. Another aspect is that the Titan
story had for the last days the possibility of a happy ending that people long
to hear. Unfortunately the latest news about a debris field near the Titanic
has destoyed the hope for a happy ending too.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: glen <geprope...@gmail.com> Date:
6/22/23 6:57 PM (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] mind candy
The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of
the Titanic
storyhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/the-greek-shipwreck-was-a-horrific-tragedy-yet-it-didnt-get-the-attention-of-the-titanic-storyBy
analogy with eye candy, where the Eloi get all the attention and the Morlocks
spin the world, it's difficult to believe that any of us (well, most of us)
actually value human life. When dorks like Yudkowsky fret over AI as an
existential threat (and the only such intelligences we can see are birthed by
immense wealth), are they fretting over, say, the 100 children below deck in
the migrant ship? Is that what they're fretting over? I don't think so. It
reminds me of the idea of elite overproduction
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction>. Yudkowsky is an elite,
but of a different stripe than, say, Samuel Alito (rubbing shoulders with
billionaires). When an elite like Musk calls for a "pause" and an elite like
Microsoft barrels on like a bull in a china shop ... and most of what we see in
The Media (stupid English) is those fighting elephants, where do the 100
children rank? Are we merely biomass, providing the scaffolding to a higher
order life form, much like some of us think fungus and insects are scaffolding
for us? If so, then who cares about a few dead bodies at the bottom of the
ocean at all, whether millionaires or the forgettable poor?-- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs
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