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I think how people relate to media and attitudes about out-groups can have an even deeper impact on a life. We all can witness people being shot in non-fiction on police bodycam footage, surveillance camera footage, published on video websites, etc.

Most people compartmentalize seeing shooting of a house and killing a child sleeping in their bed in Ukraine in 2024 different from a drive-by shooting on their own street or road rage on a highway killing a child sleeping in bed or car. But we can witness it easily now and most people are taught to detach non-fiction video of "others" and treat it like it is fiction.

It becomes a wealth and power status symbol to move to the "good part of town" and a "safe neighborhood" and create a compartmentalized mindset that what goes on in other areas is "not witnessed" the same. A detachment of compassion for those in the out-groups and a denial that indeed it is reality, it is non-fiction.

I think there is huge demand and faith from corporate executives. They can secretly propose their wild ideas without any employee resignations, ethics concerns (spending millions on a contract, you won't get consumer-restricted "safe" AI), etc.

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

Classic CPU hasn't held a candle compared to GPU on very repetitive math calculations. AI this year has really shown the same difference. In other words, it isn't just graphics... https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/identity-access-manag...

On Facebook, any time I see someone post with the words 'my account was hacked' they get a dozen automated replies from other users offering services to fix their account. In most cases, the person isn't even hacked, their account was cloned/impersonated. With the kind of money Facebook has, they can't set a honeypot account up and post 'my account was hacked' on it? This has been going on for months.

Back in the 1990's, the in-person User Groups were a thing of the past and we didn't have Patreon style support donation system wasn't widely accepted. Funding was mostly out of owner/operator budget like it was in the BBS days.

Usenet was part of the ISP plan, part of your monthly dial-up (or otherwise) costs.

Who paid to moderate and solve problems was starting to fail under the load and the easy ability to mass spam.

I propose that students should write the textbooks and pass them on to the next class, who in turn edits and writes more of the same textbook. Using a tool like a Wiki that keeps complete history of every addition, edit, delete to the content of the teaching material. And, of course, with citations and references.

Start with the old textbooks in the school library and teachers editions and give writing assignments for new original writing that becomes the teaching material for the current class and future classes.

> I dont think Cam. Analytica is related to this

You think medical doctors, trained psychologists, manipulating the population had nothing to do with the change in behavior on social media around 2014?

“In fact, a 2015 study by Youyou, Kosinski and Stillwell showed that, using Facebook likes, a computer model reigned supreme in predicting human behaviour. With ten likes, the model predicted a person’s behaviour more accurately than one of their co-workers. With 150 likes, better than a family member. And with 300 likes, the model knew the person better than their own spouse.” ― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World

> When Facebook was a friends feed pre-2014 something and not a rage feed none of this was a problem.

2014 is significant, as it is 1 year after the IRA went online in early 2013 and Cambridge Analytica was also in operation. The new techniques they unleashed haven't gone away and there are copycats all over the place.

I see no solution short of a massive education campaign for every person in society as to what the human brain flaws are in regard to favoring mythological media patterns. A history of humanity favoring nonsense and falsehoods, a map to the weak spots in the human brain. Machine thinking has been doing sorting the output of social media for a long time now on media platforms, and 'trending' has proven for a decade to be a race to the bottom of exploiting flaws in both the hardware of the human mind and our lacking education on faults in chasing false signals.

> You touch on a major reason where a lot of American digital nomads fail, and that is that it takes A LOT to integrate into a foreign culture.

I find they are disappointed because the wealthy are often the first to travel and live multiple-house nomad lifestyle. Which is nothing like being a nobody who has only average income. An actor traveling all over the world with a personal assistant and businesses arranging everything is who they hear about most as the nomads of the world. As they are the big sports stars, film stars, book authors, musicians - doing their show.

But a lot of musicians and such will tell you that it is by no means easy to live on the road and to follow your own path.

Back in the 1980's, George Lucas and Joseph Campbell really tried to make this knowledge clear to people. Campbell: "They've moved out of the society that would have protected them, and into the dark forest, into the world of fire, of original experience. Original experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you've got to work out your life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can't. You don't have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience -- that is the hero's deed."

Most people in 2023 wave around light sabers and have never bothered to study any of the things Lucas filmed about the mythology interpretation and human history of experiences.

“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.” ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

Amazon has an app store too

> there’s a talk show host called Tucker Carlson who goes around talking about how Democrats are ridiculous and holds all these inflammatory and demagogue views on air, but is known to be completely normal and reasonable off air and in his private life.

Exactly what Peter Pomerantsev described of domestic Russia in 2014. https://youtu.be/5Au332OG-M4?t=980

Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever. All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the facts there shown before you. Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion

> I’m surprised how many users of ChatGPT don’t realize how often it makes things up.

"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Weizenbaum, 1976