I like eating chips more than splinters i can’t remove, so…no

Many countries with powerful social security systems have beaten egoism. They’ve proved that social support can be more powerful than self-interest by investing resources into society rather than ego-driven systems.

Since egoism is broadly the primary burden on the human race right now, A.

Humans can beat it; several countries already have.

Egoism is already bringing down many civilizations., but there are others.

Ukraine is clearly winning against Russia, yes.

uh no. this is gross

US history is pretty well documented.

Relative domestic peace and international peace, which has no bearing on the fact that the United States has been steadily eroding civil rights and making disastrous domestic anf foreign policy decisions for decades that set it on this course.

the 90s - spiking lobbying and money in politics, the Gulf War, wage theft and stagnation massively increasing, corporate antitrust laws abandoned, huge leap in school shootings, domestic and foreign terror attacks against the US, the supreme court in a hundred different unconstitutional rulings, civil forfeiture statutes doubling, police militarization, qualified immunity for police officers violating civil rights and the Constitution, and the millennium should be capped off with the decision of Bush v. Gore in 2000 that can be seen directly leading to election interferences in US elections 20 years later.

just some of the events directly leading the United States toward what they are experiencing now.

You mean you don’t believe in history?

I was referring much further back in terms of the steady removal and erosion of domestic US civil rights, but if you don’t recognize the united states anymore from 20 years ago, then it sounds like you didn’t know the country that well 20-30 years ago. there are some very strong parallels occurring between then and now - oil wars, civil rights erosion, election interference, a whole recycle, although the pace has increased under trump

Honestly, maybe you didn’t know the country that well.

Domestic rights have been eroded steadily for decades, and the United States makes and has always made some truly awful foreign policy decisions, and it’s not like the US was founded as a paragon of virtue in the first place.

The collapse of the US has rapidly accelerated along its own course with trump’s two terms and there’s less chance to redeem themselves with how rapidly he’s tearing everything apart.

It’s a lot harder to change track when you’re screaming down the rails.

it’ll survive, the US is very malleable, but the world order is rapidly shifting so that other world powers and policies that are much more hatmful than US policy are ascending or have surpassed the United States that the US cannot halt or change anymore, especially without allies that it’s withdrawn from or attacked.

This is what happened., just not bin laden personally.

trump ended up killing and terrorizing way more people with grave national damage that sent multiple messages across the world than 9-11 did.

Trump’s incompetency and moral/intellectual failings were why so many enemy countries worked so hard and succeeded in installing Trump the first, and especially the second time.

sure thing, glad it helped

sell my baseball cards, i don’t care.

Cool, thanks for listening, haha.

Hope it helps.

it’s not that obvious. people interrupt other people all the time, often exactly in the way you’re suggesting. “oh MAN that reminds me of -!” and now the person confiding in you doesn’t have anybody listening to them anymore and maybe hasn’t been able to fully express themselves.

As for your response to someone confiding in you:

Usually listening and accurate acknowledgment of their story and expressed feelings are enough, but if you strongly feel they want you to respond more fully or if they explicitly ask you for feedback, ask them questions about their situation and feelings rather than beginning to tell your own story.

Keep the focus on them rather than shifting the focus to yourself. When they are finished talking about themselves, they’ll begin asking you questions or shifting the focus away from themselves.

no to childcare, i would not let an AI raise my children for the same reason I would not let a bird raise my children. different species.

platonic relationship - with an advanced enough AI, I’d feel comfortable having an AI acquaintance.

i would feel ridiculous having a romantic relationship with an AI the same way I would feel ridiculous if I had a romantic relationship with an automobile or bird.

consciousness?

absolutely, it’s a matter of the right number of neurons and the acknowledgement that “consciousness” is the expression of interactive instincts, knowledge and largely patterned reactions rather then a magical “soul” from an unknowable plane.

AI consciousness is a matter of advancement and increasing complex awareness until AI is indistinguishable from I.

AI consciousness will one day become as complex as human consciousness, which is limited and calculable.

they don’t need you to prove you can empathize with them as much as they need your support, which is often more effective through listening. than talking.

if they need you to validate your empathy, they’ll tell you, but usually people want their confidant to pay attention to them for a certain amount of time so they can safely and completely decompress/vent. telling your own story is taking away the time they’ve set aside to for themselves to fully share something important to them with you.

The fact they’re talking to you also strongly implies that they already think you empathize with them; they simply need someone they trust to listen to their story, so you making your case for how you can empathize is redundant and can makenit difficult for them to fully express themselves.

we all like to talk, and we all want to talk to someone who listens.

the second one

I’m also a big tree-starer.