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    1 hour ago, Princess Arabia said:

    For your information, it's not just blacks who live in the ghettos. There are Whites, Mexicans, Indians, Spanish people in ghettos too. So this post is not about race, it's about behavioral patterns from people in general who live in the ghettos. It all depends on the state and city, some are mostly a particular race, some are mixed and proportioned, and some are more violent and oppressed. 

    Please don't make this about race because there are plenty of non-blacks who live in ghetto areas. I'm using that word because that's the word OP used and doesn't really matter as it still means to live in an impoverished and low-income urban area of a city.

    There are also plenty of people in these areas who don't act like animals and are trying their best to work jobs to get them out of that life-style or not just that, that are well behaved law-abiding citizens. It's just you predominantly find most of the kids acting out because of whatever reasons and also some of the adults, but i'ts not all.

    That's definitely true. I've seen people from all walks of life. I've spent time in the roughest parts of Detroit, MI (mostly black) and have spent time in the Appalachia (mostly white) and can honestly say despair and hopelessness is at the heart of both communities. But I will say Black people have a bit of a unique set of circumstances given the history of Jim Crow, Slavery and The Drug War. All of that has shaped the "ghetto" culture we see today and that OP is hinting at but too afraid to say it. 

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    1 hour ago, NightHawkBuzz said:

    @Leo Gura Your right the ghetto school I went to was extremely rough. It's like you said it was literally like trying to survive in a desert or a warzone. The ghetto kids there behave so animalistic and so much different from civilized people. 

    There was constantly arguments happening and huge confrontations going on that would stop everything in the classroom and then security had to be called in. 

    These ghetto kids had NO RESPECT for anyone or anything. They talked and spoke so nasty, disrespectful and rude it was crazy. These kids were so wild, crazy and chaotic. 

    These ghetto kids were always ready to fight at any possible second and even the teachers didn't have control over the classroom because they didn't know how to handle these kids.

    These people were chaotic, animalistic, aggressive and wild. These ghetto kids were more like animals then people. 

    Also the kids acted very scary, wild and crazy. Whenever these ghetto kids were mad they would do scary things like start punching lockers with their fist or they would take their frustrations out on you by going off on you. 

    Ghetto people are the worst of the worst. 

    If you ever get yourself into a ghetto environment like I did you'll see it's like a battlefield. 

     

    Your life assignment from here on out is to see the humanity in these "animalistic" ghetto people as you describe them. 

    They are not animals. They are human beings conditioned to survive in the environment they were born in. You may find their behavior off putting and problematic. That's fine. You don't have to like it because a lot of it is problematic and off putting. But I would implore you to stop with the demonization and instead critique the conditions that spawn such human beings. Wealth inequality, Generational/Collective trauma, Poor schools. Lack of access to healthy foods, Pollution, The long term impacts of America's Drug War, etc. It isn't them that is animalistic. The conditions they find themselves in is animalistic. And a society that has allowed these conditions to fester and permeate is animalistic. 

     

  4. Posted · Edited by abundance

    19 hours ago, NightHawkBuzz said:

    I had two different experiences in high school and in college. 

    I went to a ghetto high school where most of the kids that went to the school came from very bad areas and they were poor. The ghetto kids at this school acted horrible. Below is a bulletpoint list of some of the things that would happen below at my ghetto high school with all the ghetto kids that went to it. 

    • They behaved very wild, crazy, aggressive and chaotic. 
    • Fights broke out constantly 
    • There was always chaos in the classrooms and this would stop all the learning that was happening constantly. 
    • Security had to be called into our classroom constantly because of confrontations that broke out 
    • The ghetto kids that went there were extremely, rude and disrespectful. 
    • They were hostile and always ready to fight 
    • They were very aggressive. 

    I graduated and went to a college with people who came from different areas who came from more middle class and rich backgrounds they acted completely different. There wasn't always chaos and fights breaking out. The people that went to the college were more well behaved. 

    I want to know why it is like this why do ghetto people behave so awful and horrible? Why do ghetto people cause so much chaos constantly?

    Trauma. Traumatized people have problems. There is a lot of collective trauma and PTSD in the ghetto. Many children who grow up in impoverished and high crime areas suffer from PTSD. 

  5. Posted

    3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    The centeralization of AI power in a handful of maasive corporations is deeply concerning. AI mixed with shameless late stage capitalism is very problematic for us little people.

    The centralization of AGI is a huge concern

    I found I a recent post from an employee on OpenAI's Future/Governance Team that brings up this point. 

    https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1axsmtm/daniel_kokotajlo_openai_futuresgovernance_team_on/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

     

  7. Posted · Edited by abundance

    On 2/21/2024 at 11:40 AM, Leo Gura said:

    I didn't say AGI won't happen.  I just said there's a lot of hype and that 7 month timeframe is silly.

    It depends on your definition of AGI. 15 years ago people would have considered ChatGPT 4 an AGI.

    ChatGPT has already passed the turing test. But now that test is considered outdated.

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313925121

     

    I personally think we'll have AGI by 2029 as predicted by Ray Kurzweil. By that time we'll have AI that satisfies most people's definition of AGI. 

  9. Posted · Edited by abundance

    I don't think its hyperbolic to say that if Trump gets elected again American democracy will be in great danger. But perhaps Americans need to go through this in order to appreciate democracy and civics a little more. There is a clear sense of aloofness when it comes  acknowledging the danger of Trump by many Americans. It doesn't help with mainstreams media constant needs to appear unbiased. 

  10. Posted · Edited by abundance

    32 minutes ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

    I hope the Republicans aren't THAT retarded, and prove it by AT LEAST choosing Nikki Hayley. I don't understand why Donald Trump continues to have all of this support despite his criminality (January 6, the indictments and lawsuits, election denial, etc...).

    The Republican party is firmly in the hands of Trump unfortunately. Trump is going to destroy Nikki Haley in New Hampshire. And once she loses in South Carolina I suspect she'll drop her campaign. Hopefully traditional conservatives who supported Haley will vote Biden and enough people will look at all of Trump's court cases and realize he isn't fit be president again.

  12. Posted · Edited by abundance

    I don't think A.I. is another hype cycle. Sure there's a lot of hypemen saying AGI is a few months to a few years away but there's some semblance of truth behind it. Many A.I. experts now agree that AGI will likely be accomplished within the next 10 years. How fast such tech will be adopted and impact our economy as a whole is uncertain. Historically tech takes time for people to feel real world impact. But this also isn't like any other tech. This is intelligence. 

    There are also many other emerging technologies that will soon have impact on and by A.I.. Such as genetic engineering, quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, renewable energy etc.

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    @abundance Dugin is not opposed to AI per se, he is opposed to the degeneration and destruction of mankind and man's soul or spirit.

    An example would be plugging yourself into a VR porn world for 12 hrs a day while robots cook your food and clean your house. For Dugin this is Satanism.

    I can see why one would think that is a problem. Especially someone with such a rigid worldview as him. VR porn world sounds fun btw and I'm all for it. He'll be the one missing out and clinging on to his outdated worldview while the world moves on. 

  14. Posted

    6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    This is EXACTLY why Dugin calls liberalism Satanic. Because he believes it will ultimately devolve into that, and you are proving his point.

    I'll have to do a little research on his philosophy to see why this idea would be considered Satanic lol. I don't want to take away from the main conversation but I don't see the problem with a society in which the bulk of human labor has been mostly automated away. And I wouldn't take humans completely out the equation. We'll still have to determine what role advanced A.I. will play in our society. I envision a society where the need for human labor is minimal and our basic needs are taken care of. You want a job? Fine. But it isn't required to live a good life.

    Further, A.I. could help determine how to ration resources responsibly to the benefit of everyone and the planet as a whole. Or perhaps transition us into a post scarcity society. With everyones basic needs being met we wouldn't need to waste time with concocting stupid theories that are ultimately rooted in scarcity. 

  17. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    @lina Well, you have to ask yourself, How else can Hamas be eliminated? Because it certainly cannot be allowed to stay in power.

    The unfortunate reality is that eliminating Hamas will involve a lot of collateral damage. Hamas is a cancer within the Palestinian population. Eliminating a cancer is very difficult and comes with serious side-effects.

    I wish that wasn't the case, but that's the situation. Peace negotiations can resume once Hamas is eliminated and Palestinians have sane leadership.

     

     Smh. All those psychedelic trips and meditation retreats and you still lack basic compassion and empathy. 

     

  19. Posted · Edited by abundance

    I wouldn't be so quick to label them aliens (or extraterrestrial) . There's a reason David Grush uses "nonhuman intelligence" as oppose to aliens. 

    If you study the phenomena long enough you'll see that extraterrestrial theory doesn't quite add up. So many of these cases have no rationale behind them. I think Jacques Valle, whose been studying the phenomena for decades may be on to something. He posits that the phenomena may be behind a lot of the religions and folklore throughout human history and that it may ultimately be apart of some control system that aims to guide humans along some unknown path. 

     

     

  20. Posted

    On 6/21/2023 at 7:41 PM, Tudo said:

    These days I've been seeing  A LOT( really a lot)  of racist and xenophobic stuff from portuguese people towards brazilians on social media and  on the news, and this make really angry specially beacuse Portugal stole my country for centuries, slaved millions of africans and after all this, they still treat us as trash.

    How do you deal with racist and xenophobic  people?  You don't. At least I don't unless they're a direct threat to me or my family. All you can do is try to educate other people who'll listen. These are ignorant and miserable people for the most part. Think about where your life has to be to take the time and effort to shit talk about other groups of people online all day. 

     

     

  23. Posted

    6 hours ago, sholomar said:

    I think it's a bit of a joke. All presidents possess classified information after they leave office and we've never held any of them to this standard except Trump. They never even asked him to give it back, they just decided to go in for the kill because they don't like him, LOL. I am not a huge die hard Trump fan or anything, I just see the left becoming dangerous because they believe the ends justify the means. They are not playing the game fairly. They are like the religious right when I was growing up... an undeserved sense of moral and intellectual superiority that clouds their judgement as they are assimilated into their cult belief system.

    Just another group of people who think their poop doesn't stink who happens to be the ones in power right now. Human nature being human nature.  In any case, Trump was the least likely candidate to win the election if he was nominated on the republican side in 2024, so the democrats just shoot themselves in the foot if someone else gets the nomination, say a Desantis/Noem ticket.

     

     

    dude, inform yourself and take time to listen to the actual indictment. These are very serious charges and they aren't unwarranted.