by capacity I don't refer to physical capacity although that is also dwindling
rather most men are not cognizant that they could, if they chose, possess and use power
awareness of capacity is necessary though of course not sufficient to be dangerous
I have mostly negative feelings about this
Generally I think people would be better off if they conceived of themselves as possessing agency and sought to develop it where it was lacking, rather than just flowing with the currents of systems and institutions
is it any wonder that (most?) graduates leave more comfortable passively floating through systems rather than seeing a world they want to make real and exerting blood and sweat and cunning and charm to immanentize it
they have no practice with this at all a few outliers excepted
@CpnShortbread generally anyone breaking into your house is prooooobably trying to burgle you rather than kill you and they really don't want to deal with an apeshit psycho blinding them and beating them with a blunt weapon
@CpnShortbread @ctdonath Probably better off with a short shotgun if you want a firearm no?
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a caveat on some of the above items fwiw, although this objection on my part was more aimed at some historical examples where the weakness was imo stronger
of course this actually strengthens the original "slippery slopes are extremely real actually" point because history is absolutely littered with slopes that even if not recognized as such by contemporaries were seen by historians!
AI is not currently good enough to cause me to lose my job but i expect ive got maybe a year to figure out how to move up several abstraction layers some of which may not even exist yet
this is going to get weird because idk how people starting careers will even begin
my intuition is that having a model of how a function--data, engineering, product, whatever--functions is important to capably automating that function
people who have been operating in those functions for years seem as though they'd have an overwhelming advantage in this
but of course to the extent agents hollow out these functions and displace human labor its hard to imagine firm structures remaining as they exist, designed for human operations
so this probably gets me another year or two max, if i'm working in tech proper
the biden administration, which i assume had access to people who know at least as much about missiles as i do, equivocated about whether or not they believed the israeli explanation that the strike was a failed hamas rocket
a major lesson of the awokening for me was that a significant number of people on the left hate me and would prefer i not exist and a majority of the country is willing to go along with policies operating toward that end
this was probably an infohazard
i call it an infohazard because there's really not anything i can do with this information but it leaves me anxious about the future, and experiencing to varying degrees contempt or outright hatred toward people about whom i had previously felt positively
when i look at the political landscape i see two factions wholly unworthy of the inheritance bequeathed to us by our ancestors
the important difference between them is that one is directed by people who would prefer i be erased