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Pet conspiracy theory: The biggest common psyop goal is to make you feel depressed and powerless. "You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge."

When it's known that something is both very useful and doable innovation has happened and refinement awaits.

What if the AI revolution will merely make us realize that we're already living with an abundance of cognitive capacity?

A cursed problem with outrage is that it is a form of legitimisation.

To be good you need ethical idealism and knowledge. To be effective you need intelligence, pragmatism and the realisation that happiness is your most important houseplant.

We are adapted to care about mainly two things: singular individuals or physical objects. It makes sense that we conflate groups of people into certain individual behaviours. It makes sense that it takes effort to learn to recognise other useful abstractions.

Maybe Trump wants to crash the economy so him and his friends can buy it.

Why is everyone talking and thinking about the same things and it's always some hyped up American idiosyncrasy. This is one of the ailments of our time.

Great people, regardless of morality, are created and empowered through our collective perception. And just like we empower our thoughts through attention we have to cultivate our collective perception towards a desired state. We need to become aware. Of ourselves. Together.

If you only look for role models that are ethically superior to common people your moral compass might start spinning?

You could make a religion out of this.

The problem with cancel culture isn't whether or not the criticism is valid. The problem is that all attention goes towards criticism to the point of exhausting any potential of creating culture that isn't about cancelling. This creates a binary choice between idiocy and "not that".