@lulumeservey There is another possibility, Lulu, one that dominates my group chats.
Jensen is sleeping with all his customers. When they say the interactions were not unusual or unexpected, they mean he is a sex machine on a rampage, seducing thousands of AI hardware execs with a glance.
i wanna be all over those “are we dating the same guy” threads and they’re all like “yeah he ordered me 6 dozen oysters and said he wants to see a clean plate. then we watched an edmund fitzgerald documentary at his place and he was very clearly crying and trying to hide it”
Your fitness today is basically a measure of your ability to regulate yourself and do what is best for your long term well being in spite of everything around trying to crush you.
You might say that a world which requires expert cogsec in this way is evil. And maybe you are right. But that does not change that the world is this way, you will never change it, and if you ever could you would almost certainly make it infinitely worse.
If you cannot pass through this great filter, that is very sad indeed. If it is any consolation, there have been thousands if not millions of filters like these over human history, most people failed them, and you are thus in good company.
However what is also notable here is that you are a product of all those who have passed this filter. Millions of generations of winners conspired to produce you. And latent within you is everything that allowed them to succeed, if only you will harness it.
This brutal, cold, Darwinian process is how it always has been and in some sense always will be. That which optimizes best for the furtherance of its likeness forward through time and across space wins, and that which does not loses. And this war is hard coded into the nature of time and space itself.
Whether you choose to accept this fact and try to win, or reject it and make excuses for why you are losing, is entirely your choice to make.
Those of us choosing the former will not try to crush you. if anything we will try to help you. Because civilization is a positive sum game where your winning begets our winning which begets your winning. But if you refuse our hand enough times, we will move on to others, and leave you to your chosen fate of a short, miserable life and eternal death.