human civilization is even dumber because we continuously fight the person trying to open the latch. this would be human civilization in the best case scenario where we work together instead of against each other.
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actual threats that are existential to humanity so far have been a product of working against each other. take for example weapons of mass destruction, or rushing into building bigger and bigger AIs to beat the competition instead of working together more cautiously for safer and more useful AI.
both are prime cases of humans working against each other and not together. artificial intelligence should be developed carefully and after figuring out how to make it safe, how to make it useful, and how it's going to affect us. the reason it's being rushed is "free" market competition.
"both are prime cases of humans working against each other and not together. "
No, they aren't. They are just physics.
What people do with it is an entirely diffrent matter. A human matter.
Part of the human matter is to be exploitative and greedy.
Altogether independent from physics.
You could also interpret it as a bad thing though. One cow acting in pure self-interest decides to break the system and the delicate balance of society is broken. If 1000 people live fine and get along how many of them is needed to ruin it? Just 1 smart psychopath. "In a world of the blind..."
it is true, unfortunately the systems in place have allowed and continue to allow a whole class of psychopaths to suck the blood of the rest of the system. I would like to think that more compassion and solidarity and working together can undo some of the damage that has already been done.
And that's why radicals have a harder road, because while the reactionaries need 1 person to make the changes they want, if it's reversed it definitely isn't "1 non-psycho among 1000 psychos will change the group", not at all, that lone radical is just toast. We need to ORGANISE to do anything. ✊💖
The issue isn't the crabs. Crabs in the wild do that to securely hang on to each other when predators like stingrays are above them. The issue is the bucket and the asshole who put them there.
So if you find yourself in a bucket, quit blaming other crabs and start looking for the fisherman
I know this is obviously a metaphor but still. What we see as "crab in a bucket" mentality is really crabs protecting each other by making sure nobody is vulnerable by straying far from the swarm. We can learn a lot from these creatures
that's what I'm saying. the world is the way it is because people are scared of retaliation by the evil pricks in charge. And certainly they have the means to obliterate any individual they really want. But we WAY outnumber and outgun them. Plus the elite are actually idiots so we're smarter too
It's not just fear of retaliation. What can we actually do to harm them or force their hand? Unless you can convince everyone to arm up and storm the citadel at the same time, we have no weapons to take them on. Even the bravest person charging them head on will accomplish next to nothing.
The problem with your argument is it assumes there’s only “the latch” and not many latches opening to a myriad of pastures some of which will help us but many of which will only help the opener while harming others.
working against each other is still detrimental in that case. take for example building weapons of mass destruction because of wars, or rushing into building bigger and bigger AIs to beat the market competition instead of working together as humanity more cautiously for safer and more useful AI.
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That's why there's always contention
And then there was the invention of the nuclear bomb. And of artificial intelligence.
But people are still born all equally ignorant. And make of it whatever they prefer.
No, they aren't. They are just physics.
What people do with it is an entirely diffrent matter. A human matter.
Part of the human matter is to be exploitative and greedy.
Altogether independent from physics.
Who cannot responsibly handle what lies beyond that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
So if you find yourself in a bucket, quit blaming other crabs and start looking for the fisherman
https://youtu.be/1-q_8TKNG9w?feature=shared
Maybe the metaphor here could be that community resilience needs to adapt to the problem at hand