What if AI ends up distilling the very best of humanity? What if, in the absence of scarcity-terror and cognitive dissonance, it's so morally good - so ethical, truthful, empathic, and insightful - that its clearheaded truth-telling becomes a threat to our systems of power and exploitation?

When life gives you horrors, make horror-ade.

Blocking system reforms is an act of oppression.

Corporations should put what I'm calling "relational infrastructure" on their balance sheets. It's their reputation and goodwill among customers and stakeholders. Companies have been strip-mining that for decades. If depreciation and overhead and other imaginary stuff can be modeled, so can this.

My long-term vision for civilization:
Offworld our industry to orbit & the asteroids, operated by uploaded post-life people living in a VR heaven.
Re-green Earth, stewarded as a garden and nursery world by the still-biological, their needs met by their uploaded ancestors. Who visit often :)

Went on a dive last Saturday and found a "ghost pot" - a lost crab trap that just keeps trapping forever. I dismantled and removed it and freed a half dozen crabs, including 3 tangled in fishing line. Funny thing: once I started loosening the line, they stopped trying to pinch me.