[ExI] How vulnerable is the world?

[William Flynn Wallace]

freedom becomes too dangerous to allow.  BillK

I have been thinking of the sort of mentality that equates assaulting a
person on a street in a major U.S. city with blaming China for the virus.
I just can't follow the logic.  There is some, however flawed, but I just
can't see it.  Blaming low IQ people is not the answer when you have people
like Robert Kennedy, Jr. heading an organization promoting ideas like the
vaccine causes autism.  A dangerous and deadly idea backed by no facts at
all.  Fears can get out of hand and extend actions to illogical targets - I
get that.   But blaming the virus on an Asian person who may, in fact, be a
native American?  I don't get it.  If you get it, please explain it to me.
I realize that we Mensa-type people are far ahead of most people.  We
understand what we think and why.  We, or rather I, just don't get the
logic of low level thinking.  Help!

bill w

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 9:09 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> New article by Nick Bostrom.
> Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilisation
> might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?
>
> <
> https://aeon.co/essays/none-of-our-technologies-has-managed-to-destroy-humanity-yet
> >
>
> Quote:
> One way of looking at human creativity is as a process of pulling
> balls out of a giant urn. The balls represent ideas, discoveries and
> inventions. Over the course of history, we have extracted many balls.
> Most have been beneficial to humanity. The rest have been various
> shades of grey: a mix of good and bad, whose net effect is difficult
> to estimate.
>
> What we haven’t pulled out yet is a black ball: a technology that
> invariably destroys the civilisation that invents it. That’s not
> because we’ve been particularly careful or wise when it comes to
> innovation. We’ve just been lucky.
> ---------------
>
> In effect his conclusion is that as tech and weapons become more
> powerful, freedom becomes too dangerous to allow.
>
> BillK
>
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