LordFall

@Staples Have you watched the conscious politics series? Reading your comments it just seems like you don't understand the world and your political understanding comes from basic social media. Monopoly on violence is a good thing and the only reason why our countries exist and have come out from city states and tribal warfare.

Just be honest if your viewpoint is based on your feelings or actual facts about the world. Not that long ago 90% of the population was engaged in farmwork otherwise they would starve. Technology is not utopia it's a real thing. Welcome to the internet here we are. @Apparition of Jack Yes we're quite close to worldpeace and abundance. The escalation in conflict these last few years are working out the kinks in the system before it aligns. International law will be one of the top issues at play over the next few years until we have actual credible global legislative organizations.

I've noticed your replies often misuse words. It's functionally literally not theft. Piracy does not function like regularly thievery does. Theft: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it As described merriem-webster dictionary. You gotta double check your epistemology my man.

No I didn't ask anything about your feelings about it. I asked "Why do you think the EU is in a position to play hardball negotiator with the US?" As in logistically and militarily how would that work? It's just not feasible and gonna happen. The world order will be rearrangered around AI superpowers and for the foreseeable future the EU is not a contender and will have to play rank and file to the united states. Tell me precisely how you think that would not happen otherwise you're just coping. This will work out well in the end I believe but we cannot be delusional about matters as serious as geopolitics.

Only drone warfare is violence in the way it's defined in modern dictionaries: behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. The rest are subjective. Conflict is bound to happen but we can solve physical violent conflict within 20 years globally I'm quite confident.

@kray What are his main takes and predictions?

@Majed Dope, just followed you back. I challenge you to make a rap on an actualization topic so we can enjoy it on the forum!

I think location independence is the key. I'm working on making online streams of income that scale over time so I can run multiple businesses from wherever in the world. I think it doesn't matter how much money you make, if you're tied to a single location you're not free.

If you can afford to support an artist and like them you probably should. Becoming part of a fanbase adds value to a product though so I mean morally if you can't afford it but torrent it you're still adding value to the author. It's fundamentally different from stealing because you're using a marginal unit(copy) of a product not the product itself.

Based on what do you say that? Perhaps you're under researched on the topic of AI, robotics and law enforcement.

Do you think that killing each other is just part of humanity and that we will never get past it? I think you're wrong @aurum and we're at most 15 years max from having most forms of violence completely disappear globally due to AI having a global monopoly on violence. The ways in which an individual actor can inflict violence especially at scale but even individually against an unwilling agent will become unviable shortly. In 2 years robots will be walking our streets and petty crimes and muggins will become much rarer and harder. This surely will be massively spearheaded by the UK and London with their knife crime epidemic. For a $30K investment you can buy a 200 LBS steel bodyguard that ensures you can't easily be targeted by violent attackers. I'm extremely interested in what this means in terms of peace keeping forces when the UN is able to finally have a force that can deploy militarily and not put human lives at risk. I would be extremely optimistic for what the 2030s have to bring to us in terms of world peace. In game theory terms it's just not going to be profitable or viable to be a violent species anymore.

@PolyPeter You missunderstand spiral dynamics. Stage orange is the first stage where individualism is valued. Stage blue you belong to your community fundamentally and your well being comes 2nd to that of the collective. This is directly related to spiral dynamics.

You're correct that cooperation will ultimately win out but you're a fool if you think that Greenland, Venezuela nor is any other state not a chess piece. Everything in politics is a chess piece, that's what survival on a societal level means. The next few years are going to shake up the world order massively and it's important for us to have these conversations now but I think ultimately the centralization of the world order will be a great thing for humanity and small nation states have no choice but to become more intertwined with bigger ones as I believe humanity will inevitably form a global government under AI in this next 10-15 years. @Staples Why do you think the EU is in a position to play hardball negotiator with the US? Even if the US forcibly takes Greenland with warships, most of the EU almost inevitably will tell Denmark to take it on the chin and capitulate so they help them against the Russians on their other flank.

How did you find the colombia time? I want to check it out sometime this year or next one. I've dated in Canada mostly in Toronto and Calgary and it's fun but I wanna try global dating while being a digital nomad for a few years. Seems like a peak experience.