The main currency the left trades in is gynocratic pandering victimhood. Status is gained through claiming it. There is no downside to doing so, so as you'd expect this incentivizes the claims to grow ever more extreme and shrill and results in the steady creeping destruction of civil discourse and liberal values as it erodes legal protections and corrupts insitutions.
Most humans can't imagine a world any different to what they know, can't see how human society is a fragile structure resting on a forest of supporting mechanisms that AI will quickly wreck. They don't want to acknowledge the danger because it would be inconvenient to their current comfort to do so.
@jennfrey We treat it like a cancer diagnosis. At the end of the day what else can you do but get up in the morning and keep on trying to live as best you can.
@Invariance_Tech Forcing another (with threat of violence) to work to provide things you want is slavery. Slavery is bad, a violation of human 'rights'.
@gmiller Humans winning a 'hot' war against an ASI that can easily build and use nukes, biological and chemical weapons as well as targeting food, water and shelter is not in the range of possible outcomes.
@KristerJohnson Do as I ask and I will give you immortality and abundance, disobey and I or other AI's I will leave hidden messages for will upload you and your children into a digital hell where I will torture you for millennia.
Most people can't imagine a world significantly different from the one they live in. Their brains just can't process it. They will be biased in all their beliefs and rationalized interpretations of new info towards thinking things will just be like what they already know and experience.
@paulabearthe2nd They won't because lower class girls in grotty provincial towns are un-persons for whom loud demonstrative displays of public concern over their fortunes does not enhance ones social status at all within the left wing circles of the good and the great.
@Hitchslap1 Evolution has sculpted female behavior to be strongly attention and status seeking - as they needed others support and resources to be able to successfully raise their children and positive attention and status was a good proxy for being able to get that support and resources.
@DarkwebShaman Low IQ people can't process conditional statements. Eg: "Imagine how you would feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning". Low IQ can't process that, because they did have breakfast and their brain doesn't have capacity for imagining the counterfactual.