[ExI] Fundamental Concept

John Grigg possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 10:40:26 UTC 2021


Jack Williamson's sf series, The Humanoids, comes to mind... "We are here
to protect humanity from itself..." "You will comply for your own good..."
"You *will* be happy..."

John


On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 2:22 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> forgiveness ---    bill w
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:57 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 7:56 AM Ivor Brians via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> A Q for the group: “What is the most fundamental concept which could
>>> eliminate all strife in the human world (even if impractical)?”
>>>
>>
>> Eliminating strife.  If you eliminate strife, you eliminate strife.
>> Seems pretty fundamental to me.
>>
>> Much strife is caused by limited resources, but not all.  A minority of
>> conflict is fueled by just plain hatred and fear.  Misunderstandings and
>> miscommunication cause a bit too (including some that leads to said hatred
>> and fear - though hatred and fear can cause misunderstandings too, as
>> people make assumptions that rational minds find unreasonable).  And then
>> there are bullies, who cause strife for fun.
>>
>> But if you found some AI-nanny solution that might intervene when strife
>> occurs, that might eliminate all strife regardless of the cause - if you're
>> looking for a single, fundamental solution.
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