Hopefully my Schlindex Fund will be okay.

And instead of going on these long pointless campaigns of 'AI bad', it's far more productive to recognize the reality of the situation and try to find solutions. We can't close pandora's box, but we can still find a future far brighter than the present.

AI doesn't benefit anyone aside from the top 1%. If AI actually benefitted the majority of people, I don't think anyone would really have an issue with it. The fact is that we all recognize it's a poisonous technology to our society in its current state. We need to regulate it before it's too late.

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- AI is enabling rampant cheating in academia
- AI is trying to do everything for us instead of helping us learn how to do things for ourselves
- AI is engagement focused and sycophantic. Making it harmful when used as a substitute for therapy or human connection.
- AI makes scamming easier

So as a reminder. The core issues with AI are and always have been:
- AI is leveraged by greedy companies to save money at the expense of people's livlihoods.
- AI can create convincing deepfakes and fabricate events which never happened.
- AI can mimic people's voices
- AI is not regulated.

Another issue with AI that's slowly going away: The quality of the output. People are finding methods which create art and music more consistently. Many people are tricked already and that's only going to get worse with time. "AI Art looks bad" will cease to be a valid argument. This is inevitable.

I know a lot of people are cheering for the AI bubble to pop, and I agree it needs to pop at some point. However, I'm not exactly *cheering* for that day, and you probably shouldn't either. It's going to cause a catastrophic ripple effect which will harm the lives of many innocent people.

There's also something to be said about AI taking jobs. In all reality, this is also overstated. AI is being cited as the reason for layoffs by companies- not because the AI is doing the job- but because it sounds better to shareholders than 'layoffs due to economic issues' which is the reality.

Violence for the sake of protecting another person is an example of kindness too.

Violence for the sake of correcting evil is also kindness. Some people need to get their ass kicked before they develop some empathy, for example.

Violence is kindness when peace means the suffering of others.

Part of loving yourself is learning to accept your flaws, and sometimes allow others to see or help you overcome those flaws. Loving yourself means having the ability to be vulnerable with others. It means taking care of yourself in every regard. Mentally, physically, and socially.

And when a narcissist cannot ignore, minimize, or avoid their flaws they will turn their self-hatred outward. The phrase of "Yeah, I've got <flaw>, but everyone else is just as bad as me if not worse."

If you love yourself that means you can acknowledge the good and the bad. It means you love yourself regardless of flaws.

A narcissist is infatuated with themselves because they believe they are flawless. Or rather, they are so insecure of their flaws that they ignore, minimize, or avoid them.

There is a genuine threshold and moment when people look back a year or two only to realize how much worse things are. Then they look at who's in power. Even the most cynical people who dig their heels and plug their ears inevitably succumb to the reality of their material conditions.

People will change their minds and they will change them rapidly once the reality of hunger, poverty, and a lack of support hits them personally. Even the most stubborn cultists will inevitably reach a breaking point and attempt to escape it.

The US was not a broken system, it was a decaying one. We still had a lot of privileges and the system benefitted a lot of people beyond just the extremely wealthy.
We are now heading toward that broken system, and there's no one to blame but the republicans.