Is the government of Iran about to collapse?

[aurum]

15 minutes ago, LordFall said:

we're at most 15 years max from having most forms of violence completely disappear globally

No.

That’s being way too optimistic on new tech.

[LordFall]

49 minutes ago, aurum said:

No.

That’s being way too optimistic on new tech.

Based on what do you say that? Perhaps you're under researched on the topic of AI, robotics and law enforcement. 

[Breakingthewall]

2 hours ago, Jodistrict said:

The Iranian foreign ministry has suggested that Saudi Arabia is involved in the protests, although there is no direct evidence to support that.  

Seems too anti Muslim movement to be supported by Saudi Arabia, but who knows, they are enemies. Most probably by Israel. Anyway, all middle east would be happy if the ayatollahs regime falls. 

[aurum]

5 hours ago, LordFall said:

Based on what do you say that? Perhaps you're under researched on the topic of AI, robotics and law enforcement. 

Based on my understanding of survival and developmental constraints.

It also matters how broad of a definition you are using for "violence". Is a hostile takeover of a corporation violence? Are lawsuits violence? What about exploitive marketing? Drone warfare?

[LordFall]

4 hours ago, aurum said:

Based on my understanding of survival and developmental constraints.

It also matters how broad of a definition you are using for "violence". Is a hostile takeover of a corporation violence? Are lawsuits violence? What about exploitive marketing? Drone warfare?

Only drone warfare is violence in the way it's defined in modern dictionaries: behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

The rest are subjective. Conflict is bound to happen but we can solve physical violent conflict within 20 years globally I'm quite confident. 

[Apparition of Jack]

58 minutes ago, LordFall said:

Only drone warfare is violence in the way it's defined in modern dictionaries: behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

The rest are subjective. Conflict is bound to happen but we can solve physical violent conflict within 20 years globally I'm quite confident. 

I sort of agree. Without wanting to sound too much like a crazy communist, I’d honestly say 95% of modern violence boils down to people living in desperate conditions and fighting over territory / resources just to survive.

Even conflicts that seem on the surface to be more about nationalism / ideology (like Russia vs Ukraine) ultimately boil down to this - Russia is an incredibly poor country with lots of desperation, so it’s better for Putin to use nationalism and militarism to control the people than for them to get crazy ideas like “reform” or “foreign investment.”

I think, if my intuition is correct and we’re going to see a major backlash against the sort of soulless, toxic orange late stage capitalism, countless people around the world will see their material lives improve and their political freedoms grown, giving them less cause to take up arms and shoot their neighbour because they follow the teachings of Saint Zambo the Wise while their neighbours follow the teachings of Saint Jambo the Just

[Lyubov]

12 hours ago, LordFall said:

Based on what do you say that? Perhaps you're under researched on the topic of AI, robotics and law enforcement. 

I honestly don’t buy this tech utopia stuff. This is one of their biggest selling points for CEOs to pillage clean water and enrich themselves. “Just give us time, we will sail off into a tech utopia, manifest destiny!” What eveyone has to realize is little fundamentally changes as long as collectively people are unaligned with spirit. No amount of technological progress will change that. 

Edited 38 minutes ago by Lyubov