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Hopefully without spoiling it, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time has an interesting take on game theory at the end

There's an instinct in many of us to destroy and pervert, and it can lead to very dark places.

Many of the fairy tales have it too. Maybe its something deeper common to humanity

Its the messy application of FDR's claim that the USA should be the arsenal of democracy and should protect people everywhere. Which sounds all well and good, until you get different ideas about what is the best and that 'I' know better than you. Basically all the mess of the Cold War and propaganda and advertising

The FBI is also used by various organizations to investigate various crimes, whether real or not. For instance, the Bureau of Industry and Security thought my company was flaunting export regulations and had the FBI raid my company to investigate. It turned out to largely be due to a paperwork problem, but the BIS didn't have the power to investigate so they contracted the FBI to provide the manpower to do the raid. So who we saw was the FBI, but it was really the BIS originating the raid.

Until kids show up lol

Almost every map is oriented wrong. They should be oriented towards the East (orient comes from the Latin word for east)

While there's some things that's can be done in the political and legislation spheres, there's a lot more need for just basic human relationships. Talking to those people and making friendships with those who different than you, and might be a little scary or uncomfortable. I suspect a lot of out social and political problems could be solved were we to get off of these shiny screens and spend time being in our bodies, building relationships with real people who don't fit all of our lofty ideals

Two problems: 1. We don't have community anymore and thus don't have people helping us when we're emotionally and mentally sick. 2. AI chatbots are the crappy plastic replacement of community.

There's going to be a lot more stuff like this, including AI churches/cults, in the next few years.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of higher order intelligences, look up egregores. I know John Vervake and Jordan Hall have done some work trying to describe them, as well as other people studying cognition. But when you get into that you start finding religion discussing how to interact them (after all, aren't such intelligences what people used to call gods?)

The brain drain started decades ago. We've been importing people for STEM jobs and exporting manufacturing for a while, leaving behind large numbers of people with no hope for a better future. Now the rest of the country faces that prospect as well

It's a tool, along with the tariffs and other stuff Trump is doing, to dismantle the post-WW2, America-as-global-leader/policer government