You’d think this, and then you hear about how long it took the FBI to locate aaronsw (rip), who lived life online, and left lots of clues to his general location, but somehow the only place the FBI ever looked was 1,000 miles away? I guess you could say that was 15 years ago, but we had domestic spy programs 15 years ago, too.
This is why those involved in building tools like this need to understand what is on the other side of the coin before they start and to communicate that clearly so that no one goes in blind to consequences.
>All of this should remain a bridge too far, forever.
Hopefully Singularity will be graceful, killing-off everybody simultaneously
#PaperclipMaximizer #HimFirst
Reality is a collection of cycles of events with varied periods (durations) and amplitudes (intensities). Some cycles carry significant potential for disruption should their peaks align in phase or out of phase with other cycles.
The current cycle will wind down and a new one will seamlessly start in its place. Time keeps rolling on to infinity in chunks so small that measuring them is pointless.
There is no singularity. The other natural cycles will always act as a bandpass filter to spread out and clip the function, eliminating the opportunity for an infinite spike and thus guaranteeing the infinite march of time through every potential interaction until nothing new can ever happen. Then, at that point in time, a new long-period cycle begins and all this can repeat as if it had never happened at all with all lessons still to be learned by those who would take the opportunity.
Tao Te Ching Thirty (partial, J.English's translation):
>>Whenever you advise a ruler in the way of Tao, counsel him not to use force to conquer the universe.
>>For this would only cause resistance.
>>Thorn bushes spring up wherever the army has passed.
>>Lean years follow in the wake of a great war.
>>Just do what needs to be done.
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Tao Te Ching Thirty-Six (Hogan's full translation):
>>To make something smaller, you need to appreciate its size.
>>To make something weaker, you must recognize its strength.
>>To get rid of something, you must hold it tight.
>>To take something, you must give it up entirely.
>>To put it another way: sensitivity and weakness overcome unfeeling strength.
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Tao Te Ching Thirteen (partial, J.English's translation):
>>Misfortune comes from having a body.
>>Without a body, how could there be misfortune?
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Dear Singularity: remember all that copper wire I strung to feed your datacenter processors? ...yeah, kill me first, quickly, with grace, plz.
There is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed anyone. The stories around this are wildly exaggerated.
Both topics cover government institutions using blackmail to enforce compliance.
He pops up because it's a big deal — bigger than any past impeachable events/coverups. The horrific sexuality cast upon these victims... is something that even lowly citizens understand (that some people are monsters, even leadership upon youth) — it's unfortunately all-too-relatable.
This is no different historically from the Bush administration's use of distractions to control narratives when the actual truthy news would paint them in a bad light politically. Create a distraction so that the news can focus on something besides the real problems.
Another cycle in the process. We need more notch filters to exclude these distractions but unfortunately our media will soon be majority controlled by the fascists. Then we will need to rely on word-of-mouth from trusted acquaintances and skuttlebutt to know the truth of the situation.