Hursty bringing the much needed sunshine here. I feel cleansed and ready to face the future with a renewed vavavoom x
Election 2024: The Fate of Democracy
Hursty I’ve always considered myself more of a realist than leaning toward serious pessimism or optimism. Not sure if that’s an accurate assessment, but here we are.
Covid really changed my view on both individuals and society as a whole. I always assumed that people would come together and work toward a common goal when faced with crisis. All we got was more division, ignorance, and an increasingly fractured society. We have access to all of the information and technology we need to be abundantly successful, but social media and corporate greed seem to be working very effectively in the opposite direction.
Humans seem to be pretty resilient, so we’ll probably survive, just in much smaller numbers. Can AI solve some of this? Maybe? Do I think people are going to willingly give up power and wealth for a better common good? Absolutely not.
And to be clear, I’m not looking back, I’m looking forward. We live in the safest time in human history. The average person lives with wealth and resources beyond kings from 500 years ago. I’m well aware of where we are, I just don’t like the direction things are going.
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303abuser We have access to all of the information and technology we need to be abundantly successful, but social media and corporate greed seem to be working very effectively in the opposite direction.
An interesting point, and one addressed by Yuval Noah Harari in his latest book Nexus.
I won’t attempt to do justice to his thinking here, other than to mention it’s apparently to do with how an increase in the amount of information in a network can often lead to worse outcomes due to a disruption in the balance between “truth” (an accurate representation of reality) and “order” (a stable social structure).
Or something.
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C_J I won’t attempt to do justice to his thinking here, other than to mention it’s apparently to do with how an increase in the amount of information in a network can often lead to worse outcomes due to a disruption in the balance between “truth” (an accurate representation of reality) and “order” (a stable social structure).
It’s hardly innovative thinking is it? Just look at the bilge Twitter creates amongst the BERKS!
Dubman Jesus!
Does Hannu live in a forest
Hannu is an ewok
Hey, I’m not THAT short!