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The Official Original Artificial Intelligence We're All F***ing Doomed Thread
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the swede
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This is also my biggest concern philosophically… that I always think about. There are good people… most people are sane and good and blabla… but the “mass”… the meat soup or whatever we can call it… is insanely stupid.
One of the worst things I know is the big society mass behaviors. We weren’t meant to become million people cities. It’s not in our nature. We are group animals. Small groups. That’s how we still work. Evolution will not yet step in for humans to the life we have created, it takes a long time. And evolution will probably not have time to steer this animal into adaptation to the changes we made.
Side note….
An interesting comparison would be the natural domestication triggers that happen in wildlife (animals) that are subjected to changes in the environment. There is a natural programming there. For example the latest raccoon research news/story where they discovered that it didn’t take long for the species to develop shorter nose, because…. They don’t need it to be long if living close to humans. They also needed to get rid of threat/defense behaviors as it’s more important to show the areas dominant species (humans) that they are not a threat.
“Don’t mind me, I’m just calmly looking through your trash and I’m trying to behave nice so you don’t feel threatened by me”
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Cities aren’t for everyone, but if you look at a population density map it’s clear they are for MORE or even MOST people. In fact, at least by the numbers in the US, 80% of our population resides in urban zones, with only 20% of folks comprising the entire remaining land mass of the country. Honestly a pretty wild stat to consider.
Unfortunately our shitty media and shitty politicians are working overtime to create boogeymen out of these places that comprise the overwhelming majority of our people. It’s dumb, lazy propaganda meant to be consumed by dumb, lazy people.
Dogs are probably the best example of this. About once a day I look at one of my dogs complaining about not having a blanket on them for their nap and mutter “you used to be a wolf”…
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Haha!
I have a cat… hate him and love him. I see the duality of his being everyday haha. How he is mostly, maybe 70% pure cat and the rest is a strange mix of living with people in a house.
Mom is mom…. That’s written into stone, it’s her above all, his main human… he accepts me… more or less, but can’t see me as the leader because in his mind I am low rank, or just a weird man cat. The kids are his kids… proven to us when he drops mice and other nastiness on their bedroom floors…. And he prefers to be with them over me.
Bastard… but he probably means well.
But yeah dogs are probably more obvious domestic. Cats doesn’t seem to get really there mentally, seems impossible. I did manage to train ours to shake hands before food time. I also read somewhere that the white coloration or spots in many animals are largely an evolutionary domestication feature. Cows, horses, dogs and cats and so on.