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That is something I, as a hu-man, and a being that forgets, cannot tell you.

The only thing I know is that the more I observe the stupidity of our species and the governments on this planet, which are somewhat all prone to egocentric corruptions and therefore stupid decisions in exchange for money ... doesn't work.

I mean, we are collectively destroying our habitat, not even having a backup colony on our moon, not even wanting to go for space other than territorial dispute. And what is the reason why we don't do this? So that we can drive our sports cars to impress others?

I meanwhile think that the only way to progress to a different society class (e.g. Type II and beyond) is if we decide to accept a rational system as our leading guidance at all cost. Be it a "Super AI" or a cybernetic system that combines all knowledge without forgetting it, doesn't matter.

But what matters is that the current state of how we divide powers (in the sense of democracy, communism, socialism etc) doesn't work because there are people involved that don't give a damn. And those that don't give a damn are the ones that benefit the most from the system, and are able to reach the top much easier than people that are not willing to compromise on their ideals. The system(s) have to be redesigned so that the incentive of that changes.

How to do that? I don't know, I'm a monkey that was trained to reach out for more bananas.



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