North Stoke Life

Imagine a world where there was no shortage of anything anymore.   Where there was plenty of food for everyone. Where wealth was being produced in such enormous amounts that nobody will ever go without ever again.  Imagine a world where there's no fear necessary any more about people who live in distant lands. Because we now know everybody in this world. There are no strangers.  How do you think the people in that kind of world will behave?  I suggest you take a look around you right now. I'm not having a go at the whole world in its current crazy state. I am saying that the world needs existential crisis to give it meaning.  And without meaning the people start behaving very strangely. Or to mitigate, we create, out of thin air, another existential crisis, to restore 'meaning'. A world without meaning is a very scary place for everyone to live in. This is not to say that a world without meaning is better or worse. It is to say that it has never...

In the old days, the hero would walk out across the frontier and into the forbidden zone, to speak to the dragon. To find out. Not to dismiss the dragon or try to kill the dragon. But to ask what the dragon meant by what he did and said. Free from judgement. Only to listen, not to preach.  Of course the hero was often killed for trying to listen to the dragon. No one else had listened to the dragon before, so do you blame the dragon? But sometimes, the hero would make it out of the forbidden zone, back home. Where he would tell his own kind what the dragon meant, how he felt and why he was doing it. And his own kind would kill him for telling them. So there are no more hero's anymore. And the dragon remains, alone. 

If a young person looking for a career, thinks of AI like this, they will be way ahead of the rest, who do not think of it like this: AI is your slave. You are its Master. AI is your labour force. You are making executive decisions based on their work. You used to be the labour force and slave. Now you are the CEO and Master Rise Up with Confidence! It is obvious how it will save the young by increasing productive power. It is not obvious to the young how it will mitigate their need to genocide the old.

... or more compactly: The Social Death of Autonomy The Three Strands The fear of freedom People intensely desire genuine autonomy, yet pure freedom and total personal responsibility feel terrifying. To escape that anxiety they seek the safety of a pre-packaged script - a Master...slavery. Obedience and signalling In hierarchical societies, the primary route to social and economic advancement is obedience to a chosen “master” (political tribe, ideology, religion, identity group). Public signalling of loyalty outweighs competence, hard work, or abstract principles. Tribes function as competing obedience partitions, usually settling into dualities (us vs them). Social death as the enforcer The ultimate sanction that keeps the system running is social death — the extreme loss of identity, belonging, and recognition. Disobedience risks exile or erasure; perfect signalling of obedience confers status and protection. This single title - Autonomy Under the Shadow of Social Death - gath...

And everybody knows, by intuition,  what justice says about the sentence for a conviction.