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  • Trump is delusional and thinks he can bend reality to what he wants to be real.
    This type of delusional thinking is very typical in USA, based on the idea that if you want it enough you can make it.
    This mantra has become so pervasive that some have begun to believe that you don’t even have to do anything to achieve what you want. If the wanting is strong enough, reality will bend to your will.
    This is what happens in an anti science society where the mentality is driven by religion and superstition combined with desperation and a wish for ultimate freedom.
    The idea is spread for instance through numerous self help books and prosperity gospel.

    USA is a society that has gone collectively insane.

    PS:
    That doesn’t mean every American is insane, but as a whole American society is de facto insane. It’s obvious to see everyday in the news.




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    3 days ago

    After the latest Android update, When I turn on the torchlight on my phone, I get a notification with a text AND A blingeling sound.
    I often use the torch when going to bed, and the audio notification is EXTREMELY annoying since I’m trying not to wake my wife.

    For fucks sake, a notification for tuning on the torchlight? I would think it’s kind of obvious since first I pushed the button to turn it on, and for fucks sake it a TORCHLIGHT, how could I miss having turned it on?!?! That notification is insanely moronic, and I can’t find anywhere to disable it???
    Stupid Android updates always fuck up something.

    PS:
    My phone is a Xiaomi 13T Pro.
    If this is a Xiaomi thing, it could be reason enough for me not to buy Xiaomi again.






  • The potential is there.

    I used to think that too, but honestly Trump/MAGA and the fact they won the American election with an actual majority vote, a country of hundreds of millions of people, that is not a minor fluke, it’s a symptom that humanity is very very sick. If it was an isolated incidence it might have been a fluke, but it is very far from.
    Israel/Gaza and Russia’s war mongering against a peaceful neighbor are also symptoms. China’s claim to Taiwan, and undermining of Taiwan in international relations is also a symptom by a major power with 1.4 billion citizens.
    Together with the fact that the global effort to slow down climate change is completely failing, and we continue to pollute ourselves to death. In great part due to USA not participating according to their ability, but has been dragging their feet in every administration since Jimmy Carter lost the office.

    If we can’t figure these things out, we will not survive, and we don’t deserve to survive, because we will kill not just ourselves but all life on the planet. So we are lucky there isn’t some alien species monitoring us, and finishing us off before we ruin the planet completely.


  • There’s nothing to flunk

    There absolutely is, we are flunking our own survival and undermining our own well being by doing harm to ourselves, and that is absolutely lack of the most basic evolutionary intelligence.
    Also remembering a number with just a few digits for just a few seconds most definitely has NOTHING to do with wisdom, but everything to do with basic intelligence.

    I am most definitely using basic examples of intelligence, and not of wisdom.
    To claim for instance not committing suicide is a form of wisdom, is moronic.
    What part exactly do you think reflect wisdom? What exam have you seen that test wisdom over intelligence?


  • If a class all flunk an exam, but one is slightly better than the others, would you call that pupil super intelligent?
    As far as I can tell that is where humans are right now, humanity is flunking the most basic of exams extremely badly, with wars pollution and even destroying the planet. We are essentially undermining our own existence as a species. And by that comparison, almost all animals are more intelligent than us.
    But you could argue the way we are committing suicide is very very clever, because lots of money is being made on it.

    As mentioned above, our intelligence is extremely limited in many many ways, so calling it super-intelligence is just weird.


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    5 days ago

    Considering we have genetic similarity of 96% to a chimpanzee, and obviously a lot of that is NOT intelligence, I will venture the guess that we are merely one evolutionary step above other intelligent life on this planet. With many species trailing merely a single step behind like Elephants, dolphins and Chimpanzees that are somewhat equal to each other.
    That one step may be very significant in implications of more sophisticated language ans abstract thinking, but imagine an alien species that has taken a few steps more, and are several steps higher to us than what we are to the chimpanzees.

    I would absolutely reserve the term super-intelligence to something way more intelligent than humans.
    Maybe AI will be such an intelligence in a few decades?

    If you map the limitations of the human mind, and consider things that can be very hard that shouldn’t be, you can take peoples inability to remember names, or inability to remember a 10 digit number for just 5 seconds, how hard we find it to learn foreign languages properly despite they are a construct of our own species specifically for communication with each other. How hard some people find it to understand basic boolean logic etc. etc.
    We are only barely intelligent, and definitely not super intelligent.

    Edit PS:
    If AI doubles in intelligence every 2 years, it will be 32 times smarter in 1 decade, 1024 in 2 decades and 32768 in 3 decades.
    Even if the rate is less dramatic, I’m sure we soon will see intelligence way above ours.