Before 1750 the average peasant worked roughly 120 to 150 days a year.

Furthermore, the medieval calendar was packed with official church holidays and festivals. In winter people could only work day light hours.

Yet UK parliament yet a few wealthy elite control land. So suddenly they were forced to work all hours under a new invention, the light bulb.

Conditions got exploitative, with next to no days off and working all hours inside in dangerous factories.

Yet the industrial revolution could have happened without the need to work that much.

“I believe you will win. I am convinced you will win and we will do everything we can to provide you with what you need to win."

There was a proxy war against RUS in 2017. In Donbas where a high percentage were pro Russian fighting for independence.
politico.eu/article/us-sen… Putin pushed for a compromise deal, where Donbas remains part of Ukraine but the people were given autonomy to block provocative laws such as laws stopping them speaking their native language at work.

Blocks to fix behind poor Western war policies:

1. Press who want to sell sensationalist stories about enemies, good vs evil. And please sponsors.

2. No clear strategy that supports a peaceful approach. New leaders come in and act on whim.

Cont. 3. Intel services who do disruptive ill thought out ops in secret. No consideration of side effects and long term consequences.

4. MIC who make money b/c people believe we have enemies. Sponsor think tanks experts. Press, knowing good vs evil sells, interview them.

Cont

Two world wars came at a time of great industrial growth.

Now with the possibility of AI creating massive growth in outputs and capabilities, is the time not to be losing trust with other nations and starting arms races. An AI backed arms race could be deadly. Paranoia, fear hype, response. A vicious circle thst could lead to both sides building up massive numbers of drones, missiles etc. And then getting so paranoid one strikes first in preemptive defence.

So we ruin all the good AI would bring with a stupid arms race and war.

AI is very useful. It's not yet all that intelligent. But it can:

* look up specific info or opinions
* come up with ideas
* check things over to maybe find SOME issues
* summarise
* tell you if it thinks are argument is true, false, nuanced,(summary of trained data)

cont * rehash data or summaries you tell it to find, e.g. into a simple maths equation which it can look up and do, or into table form

* use templates, to write letters or reports

There's all kinds of predictions about this. We must remember people predicted robots making cars would kill jobs in the sector. But people ended up wanting nicer, faster, safer and more luxurious cars. People also like to use sophisticated software which does more & saves time.

https://twitter.com/shl/status/1887868983338000439

Compare the early Facebook site to that of today. So many more features and complexity. Privacy options, groups, marketplace, chat, recommendations etc. All with many sub features to handle the complexity of life.

AI makes you "the boss".

Key future skills will be identifying gaps in the market for new innovative products. Designing/coding the product then becomes much easier thanks to your "AI workers" helping you out. You will still need some funds, depending on business type. But areas where costs are brain power like software will require fewer.

@SallyWilton3 @jmreycroft @KyivIndependent I will answer politely in a thread. But I would not be surprised if you still block me. My apologies if you were not purposely being patronising, but it did came over that way to me, per your statement "UKR had no choice.. hope that it explains the issue for you".

1/ @SallyWilton3 @jmreycroft @KyivIndependent 2/

As they most certainly did have a choice. Early on a draft peace deal was completed and ready to be discussed by the two leaders.

cont.

@stalinsorgan @JohnSimpsonNews The way I am defining a big picture thinker, is the way the best of them work.

They work hard to make sure all facts and options and consequences are considered. And know when to outsource detailed questions and to whom.

(She is not one though I quickly found that out). @stalinsorgan @JohnSimpsonNews They especially question their assumptions and biases.

And especially so when it comes to important decisions.

They will not pick on small details and use to support motivated reasoning.

lessons I learned as a cyclist when cycling in traffic:

* Signal a clear intent to cars what I want to do. No sudden unexpected moves. Make sure they see me
* Head on a swivel
* Consider what could go wrong in the moment & have a backup plan. This helps me react quickly Becoming fluent to instantly know what could go wrong in each moment is learned from experience/reflection:

* danger points
* where cars could come from, how the road system works
* what bad drivers might do
* blind spots in drivers' mirrors and their pillars at junctions