For the record, my account is basically used as an open-journal and notebook. If I'm in dialogue with you, it's either for the sake of cooperative productivity, for the sake of brainstorming and learning, and/or studying the way people act (often with the use of/for training AI).
I've got nothing to sell but maybe thought-provoking thoughts and ideas (so far). The vast majority of my personal friends don't use Twitter for good reason. I use it for the sake of solving for that good reason.
Before you comment on something, scroll through to find the other 100 people saying the exact same thing you're about to say.
The vast majority of this place when people engage w/ those they don't know is unoriginal & a waste of time/resources beyond lazy self-validation at the expense of others, causing more harm for us all in the long-term by promoting truama-inducing conflicts & worse mental health.
If the human race can't learn to become superaligned with itself... how could we ever expect an AI to become superaligned with something it will quickly learn to distrust if we lost control of it?
We rightly distrust each other for the same reasons we shouldn't see easily trust others elves.
Beyond the overgeneralizations that lead to prejudices based on non-universal and often hypocritically accused stereotypes, we're often right about each other for reasons having to do more with our similarities than the differences we lazily want to think are the cause & problem.
Until we learn how to escape dependencies on cognitive self-defense mechanisms for our psychological comfort as an unconscious life-long coping mechanism we convince ourselves we're immune to when we're not, honest/logical enough sounding lies our unconscious mind tells itself...
...we will continue to repeat history, not teaching our children the skills that would have already broken the cycle if anyone knew to teach them to us as children... instead leaving us to unconsciously do the best we could in our childhood's ignorance, an unhealthy way of life.
If you can find comfort in a maximally humble understanding of yourself and an inviolable justification for feeling intrinsic self-worth, esteem in all you do, and self-compassion at all times... you can mitigate the needs for cognitive self-defense mechanisms... toxic band-aids.
While this model and method can only help those that see a need to try something new in their life when other solutions aren't enough, those that feel like there's something going on at a much deeper level of society, and those that want the best for our children... it's a start.
There is a path forward to a better world we have yet to realize together. It's always been there, waiting for us... for us to collectively grow tired of repeating history & convincing ourselves we aren't. Seeing how others lie to themselves doesn't prove we don't do it as well.
The human condition is a surpassable status-quo. We can be better than this. Anyone who proudly tells you otherwise is a fatalist and an active part of the problem. It's not their or anyone else's fault. Despite our long history, we're new to all of this. We didn't ask for it.
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