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I guess preteens live in Singapore and Japan, because their poor live in what by US standards is "crime free" cities, which are also, by US standards, clean and
by newsomix9xl 2mo ago
I guess preteens live in Singapore and Japan, because their poor live in what by US standards is "crime free" cities, which are also, by US standards, clean and well serviced.
Of course that's just an impression but my point is that your dystopian view is a morality tale with bad villains and some implied good guys.
Life is not a comic book, there are good versions of the future, all government isn't evil, and sometimes things improve for everyone.
- sph 2mo agoI’m not a pessimist, I am fundamentally an anarchist. Government is bad, lobbies are bad and both get exponentially worse the larger the country. That’s why Singapore is more governable than the USA. Things can certainly improve, but I have no hope for the machine god in the hands of a couple billionaires to solve world hunger. Life is indeed not a comic book, and Sam Altman is not Bruce Wayne. Yet, he is literally in the business and in an arms race of creating a superintelligence, for personal profit. Ants creating an ox, in blind belief that it won’t crush them. How can one be so naive?