21 June

The remarkable thing about the Cold War was that the invention of weapons of transcendent power, that would lead to ‘mutually assured destruction’, actually stopped the rivalry. Just as transcendent gods (religion) and Kings (monarchies) had stopped rivalries in centuries before. Never more so than when combined, in the Holy Roman Empire (Pope + Kings), which was the origin of our own societies today, after centuries of nothing but violence before it. My belief is that AI will become the next virtual transcendent power, to rescue humans from their own status rivalries. Some reality to which humans will defer, to suspend their rivalries. We’re already seeing this happening, with the astronomical speed people are taking it up. Social media HATES it, because it’s the problem, a magnifier of human rivalry. It will throw every bullshit meme it can at it.