Most urgently: To head off imminent civil war by, instead, resolving disputes over consequences of social policy to be resolved with the degree of lossless compression as the model selection criterion.
Think about this, guys: Chicago has one of the highest rates of gun violence of any city in the world. Downstate Illinois is typical of The Nation of Settlers: Radically supportive of individualism including the right to keep and bear arms. The Illinois governor is from a wealthy Chicago real estate family. Property values in Chicago are brought down by its gun violence. The Illinois legislature recently considered widespread gun confiscation under an interpretation of the 2nd, 9th, 10th, and 14th amendments. Downstate Illinois citizens immediately formed armed militias prepared to fight to the death. For now, the Illinois government has backed off. There is a trend throughout the US for states -- particularly those in opposition to Trump -- to invoke State nullification under their interpretations of the 9th, 10th, and 14th amendments. In some cases, these attempts at nullification are entirely Constitutional, as in repeal of drug laws that the Feds want to retain control over without a Constitutional grant of power. In most cases, though, these are clear violations of the US Constitution, such as "sanctuary States", like California, that obstruct legitimate Federal powers. Moreover, there is a clear trend toward polarization in the body politic over social policy -- primarily between urban and rural populations. At this point the polarization is so extreme that there is little likelihood of a peaceful resolution unless rationality can be imposed on the "national conversation" over social policy and its implications for the etiology of social ills. If violence breaks out, here's how its going to go down: 1) During a cold snap, the natural gas and electric grid supplies of the major cities will go down simultaneously. 2) The water supplies of the major cities will go down simultaneously. 3) Transportation infrastructure into the major cities will go down simultaneously. 100 million people will die, primarily in the major urban areas like NYC, Chicago, Detroit, LA, SF, Miami, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Portland (OR), Seattle and Houston. Conflict will spread to all areas of the West that have permitted large scale immigration from non-Western countries. The likely response of the centers of power will be dispersion of biological agents targeted at rural genotypes. 25% of Western populations will die. On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:03 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > The Lord. > > Well. Good question. I've tasted life and want more. I figured out I'm > going to die and I'm planning all my time into working on a big plan, > resisting all fun and valuing my plan instead. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Td4a5dff7d017676c-M5ef98d30419559710ba87996> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Td4a5dff7d017676c-M1a5830d005e243ed69075086 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
