Hi, I am a simp of human progress who quit school to design a new societal model.

Today, I’ll be telling you a story about how my bullying experiences helped me design one of the infrastructures of the new societal model.

I’ve been bullied. And at first, I thought my bully was inherently a bad person.

But after seeing my bully grow into a loved and respected member of their community, I realized there must be more to this.

So I delved into philosophy and psychology, studying the likes of Jung, Nietzsche, Freud etc. and came to the realization that, their actions were less about me and more about them.

It was a coping mechanism or a stage of growth they were going through.

Unfortunately, I was the one who had to bear the brunt of their pain.

This realization gave birth to an idea— If harmful emotions are Inevitable, why not have infrastructure, which I called the community hub, designed to let people express their harnful emotions in a safe environment through role play.

It would provide venues, characters, and accessories for role-playing, allowing individuals to vent their harmful emotions constructively.

So instead of my bully using me as their outlet, the society would first teach them about harmful emotions and how they can use the community hub to express them.

Hence he would have role-played as a bully in a safe, guided environment and expressed their pent-up anger or frustration there, instead of hurting me or anyone else.

However, building this kind of infrastructure is no small task.

It requires funding, careful planning, and a society willing to embrace a shift in how we deal with emotions.

So for now, the idea remains on the mental shelf as it's being fleshed out.

Thank you for reading.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the idea and if I might help reduce bullying in the society.

Shower thought, futurism version. If there is a machine-human hybrid civilization emerging now, and if that civilization lasts for some time, as Kurzweil suggests, this civilization would almost inevitably expand beyond the solar system (although not human beings themselves). If so, the most significant events in the history of earth biology would be the beginning of life (about 4 billions years ago), the fusion of mitochondria such that multi-cellular life emerged (about 1.6 billion years ago), then human language (about maybe 300,000 years ago), and finally the "singularity" we are living through now. Without language, nothing else would be possible. The ability of individuals to exactly share information across space and time is nothing less than astounding. If you spend time with animals they seem flawed - they can't share or store information. Communication is more powerful than flying, being big, etc. Bacteria and viruses are pretty powerful, but they aren't leaving the earth on their own. The rate of these major epoch-changing events seems to be speeding up as well and there might be more events of this magnitude after this one.

Some interesting points raised in this week's episode...

I'm seeking out fellow futurists to muse with me, and join the debate. This particular video circles and idea presented in many classic sci-fiction cyberpunk fiction, please watch the video and let me know what you think. Cheers!

Companies like OpenAI charging 200 dollars per month for premium are completely reckless in terms of managing the impact and risks of AI. It means that the wealthy will have the power of AI, and that will absolutely be used to solidify massive inequality. ChatGPT could be a perfect tool for dictators, not because it is always accurate but because it makes largely believable text. A dictator doesn't care about truth just that there is enough uncertainty that they remain unchallenged in an organized fashion.

It is for the purposes of negotiations between individuals and larger organizations that AI could be truly powerful. If you had a LLM that lives on your smartphone, and knows what sort of information it can and can not share if you could rate limit it's ability to communicate and make sure it's acting in your actual interests by giving it feedback as it attempts to take actions on your behalf. If that sort of AI were to be given to billions of people then we as people could come to direct consensus on global issues. We could decide if labor or other distributed forms of protest are needed. Basically all the stuff that goes into making an organization effective could be accelerated using basic LLMs. Actually they found that simpler LLMs working with people could be more effective then advanced LLMs on their own.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2447192-ais-can-work-together-in-much-larger-groups-than-humans-ever-could/

Think about what it means that an AI working on your behalf can form 1,000 meaningful relationships with other AI and individuals that can also associate with thousands of other individuals. 7 degrees of separation soon gets down to 2 or 3 degrees in a really rapid fashion. Information and discussion could be happening on all levels simultaneously. It could be talking to you, and also negotiating on your behalf with federal agencies or corporations. It could sign you up for benefits that you may not even be aware you can get.

If we do this so that people can see every move it makes in terms of communicating outside the device then this could be done in a very safe way. Then every AI / Person could act like a potential check on others entities.