<div dir="auto">And now the CCP tribe and the United States and her allied tribes, are engaged in what may become the greatest feud humanity has ever seen! This is due to the ruthlessness of the CCP, combined with their ever growing economic and military power, which may surpass the U.S. by only mid century. Throw in convergence technologies such as robotics, bio-engineering, AI, nanotechnology, hypersonic smart weapons and human/machine interfaces, and we could have a war that ends humanity (from a variety of scenarios) and leaves our mind children in charge. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hope the CCP leadership mellows out over time, but l have my doubts. So far what our economic cooperation has accomplished, is to create a world class adversary. </div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 6:50 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Feuds have gone on in Scotland for hundreds of years. The Middle EAst is one giant feud between the Jews and everybody, and the Sunnis and the Shiites.. No doubt one could find such things all over the world. Korea and Japan -Japan won't apologize for using Korean women as whores for their army.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">How does it end? One attacks the other, does some damage, and the other has to get revenge. Getting actually even seems never to occur. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I am no expert on evolutionary psychology, and none of you may be either. It was not that long ago that the world functioned at the tribal level and I suppose we have not had the time to evolve beyond that. So we are stuck at the level of the tragedy of the commons - every man/tribe for him/itself.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Let's upload everybody and then have the AI pull the plug.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div></div>
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