ygolo
My termites win
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I believe nihilism and fatalism are self-fulfilling. The current generation of autocomlete based AIs are trained on the stories we collectively feed it. If these are the models we're benfing into shape for systems that we want to be helpful and harmless, a nihilistic collective imagination will skew that.
There are people whose fun, branding, identity, and even livelihood depends on people believing the future and state of the world is horrible and declining, even when things go in the opposite direction.
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"If it bleeds, it leads."
The communal/cooperative rules of the landlord game (the inventor made it because she thought it could teach Georgism) were dropped to become "Monopoly." When the game maker agreed to make her original game, again they dropped the cooperative alternative rules because people found it boring.
More people find Terminator, Mad Max, and Star Wars more interesting than Star Trek.
I think there's a simpler explanation to why tik tok is showing Chinese citizens educational content while the US sees time-wasting or self-hating content. It's simply where each nation's collective imaginations are. It's certainly possible that China is using psyop techniques inside tik tok. But that theory posits an extra thing than just what tik toks collaborative filter of user preference and content features serves. If anything, it's more likely they are using psyop techniques inside China to boost the positive.
I don't believe in utopias. But I do believe in pro-topias. We can make things a bit better. There'll always be unintended consequences. Being able to find out what those are early and adjusting quickly is the better way to proceed. The heat death of the universe will take everything eventually. Let's make what we can actually predict and control the best we can make it.
There are people whose fun, branding, identity, and even livelihood depends on people believing the future and state of the world is horrible and declining, even when things go in the opposite direction.
x.com
x.com
"If it bleeds, it leads."
The communal/cooperative rules of the landlord game (the inventor made it because she thought it could teach Georgism) were dropped to become "Monopoly." When the game maker agreed to make her original game, again they dropped the cooperative alternative rules because people found it boring.
More people find Terminator, Mad Max, and Star Wars more interesting than Star Trek.
I think there's a simpler explanation to why tik tok is showing Chinese citizens educational content while the US sees time-wasting or self-hating content. It's simply where each nation's collective imaginations are. It's certainly possible that China is using psyop techniques inside tik tok. But that theory posits an extra thing than just what tik toks collaborative filter of user preference and content features serves. If anything, it's more likely they are using psyop techniques inside China to boost the positive.
I don't believe in utopias. But I do believe in pro-topias. We can make things a bit better. There'll always be unintended consequences. Being able to find out what those are early and adjusting quickly is the better way to proceed. The heat death of the universe will take everything eventually. Let's make what we can actually predict and control the best we can make it.
