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Maybe I'm non-violent
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The United States has serious problems. Especially the guns. So does Sudan. Different but not. I mean, arms and violent men in the same space cause terror. If arms weren't a thing, what would the world be like? It's a genuine question. The whole "only the strong would survive" thing is just a story. We are strong in different ways. Also, most people are not psychotic, violent despots. Most men are not psychotic, violent despots. Back in the day when we all carried around swords (and didn't have the internet), was it easier to just be without worrying about the decline of humanity?
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Also, side question, what exactly does the clandestine spy industry really do? If I were an assassin, I'd take out some of these violent men. Like this guy, Hemetti, the psycho serial mass rapist and child-soldier groomer responsible for Dafur and currently killing loads of people in Sudan.
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The interesting thing about being the "second sex" is that waking up to the social conditioning of what that means can provide for both disbelief as well as hilarity. Last night I went to a birthday dinner with about 20 other people. At my end of the table a small, slender woman said that she often got pressed against the glass in the tram because of manspreading. She wished she could do something about it but needed to "find an outlet elsewhere". So I told her about the game I play when I'm out in the world, Patriarchy Chicken.
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As a non-male identifying person, when you are walking through a crowded area, do not step out of the way of men. The polite sidestep you do to let people pass – don't do it. That is Patriarchy Chicken. Give it a try – men can play too, just always step out of the way. I know you are sitting there thinking, "It's polite to step out of people's way, I do this regardless of gender!" No you don't. Start playing, or just sit somewhere crowded and watch.
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It's fascinating what we see when we start to look.
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Maybe I'm worried
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I'm going to go ahead and make a big deal of video from the Center for Humane Technology about AI. It's an hour long, you can watch it on 1.5x speed, and it's poignant to say the least. I'm not, actually, particularly worried about the extinction of the human species. I'm confident that it will happen after I'm dust. And frankly, I'm not all that invested. However, with the speed of the race to making more sophisticated AI part of the fabric of society, I am worried about the upheaval that comes before I'm dust.
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I am mostly worried about my family and friends, many of whom don't know that voiceover AI is sophisticated enough to sound exactly like me. That it's now possible to generate entire conversations designed to scam them. I'm worried that in the next year, institutions will fall to their knees as our identity verification methods begin to fail us.
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Many of you are technologists and educators and philosophers – watch this video and tell me – is a repeat of the social media dilemma already unavoidable?
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Sidenote, I spoke with two AI models about Hemetti and asked them if he was a "good person" in a variety of ways. Regardless of my prompts, which were obviously leaning to "no, that guy sucks", the AI said some version of "As an AI language model, I cannot make a subjective judgment..." which I found to be interesting. I wonder how far the guardrails go (but I didn't bother testing them).
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Maybe I need help?
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Watching the slow moving train crash of society has its affect on the human psyche. But it's spring and I need to get outside and mow for the first time this year. The present is extraordinary.
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