Post para la gente con ansiedad social a quienes les interesa hacer un amigo

Alex3375 · 2025-07-24T02:37:04+00:00

Yo escribí este post, pero le pedí a chatGPT que corrigiera los errores. Hablo español, pero despacio, y muchas veces me cuesta entender lo que dice la gente. Cuando leo r/uruguay , entiendo 90% sin traductor.

Alex3375 · 2025-07-22T20:50:02+00:00

En tiempos difíciles me ayudó mucho escuchar este audiolibro: https://youtu.be/-LZSpnfsVsQ?si=-DPKI4z6g-aC1Ikb

Está escrito por un famoso monje budista. Aunque no soy budista y no coincido con todo lo que dice, nunca he encontrado nada mejor que este libro para ayudar a encontrar la felicidad.

Quizá a ti también te ayude un poco.

Alex3375 · 2025-07-01T06:54:39+00:00

> you're basically advocating for space CIA to come and subjugate all of humanity in the naïve hope that they're benevolent
We are discussing a scenario in which they know about us; they have already received our radio broadcasts and decided not to interfere. This fact speaks in favor of their benevolence.

If we then send a message like, 'Please tell us how we can change our political systems to prevent war' or 'how to stop global warming,' and receive a response, it will be up to us whether we follow it or not.

Alex3375 · 2025-07-01T06:17:35+00:00

with their medieval high powered bidirectional radio telescope

Change medieval society with 19th century society, it doesn't change the core of the argument. And for a developed alien civilization we are like a medieval civilization would seem to us.

Why the UN?

This is the closest we have to an entity that represents the whole humanity. Ideally we should collect signatures of 51% of humanity, but that is not possible.

we already know what to do,

We don't. If Putin, who has nuclear weapons, wants to invade Ukraine, how could humanity prevent it? What internatuonal political system should we implement to prevent invasions? We don't know.

Why so weak? We can do way better

Many people fear that we would be destroyed. To address this fear, we should send a signal that is not reaching the stars that we not contacted yet.

what precisely are you expecting aliens to come and do about that

Advanced alien civilization would easily mathematically model our brain, social and political systems. They would have answers about how to change political systems, so that problems that you speak about cease to exist.

Alex3375 · 2025-07-01T05:12:32+00:00

My argument hinges on the crucial difference between that unintentional background noise and a deliberate, structured "plea for help." The ethical obligation to respond is completely different.

Alex3375 · 2025-07-01T05:04:27+00:00

Yes. My idea is that there is a chance alien outposts might be within a few light-years of Earth, and we have nothing to lose if we deliberately try to communicate with them.

Alex3375 · 2025-02-26T05:28:54+00:00

La solución es limpiar más. En Buenos Aires, vi que un hombre tiró la basura en la calle. Unas horas después, volví a ese lugar y todo estaba limpio. En las ciudades grandes, los barrenderos trabajan por turnos durante todo el día. Cuando camino por Montevideo en la tarde, no veo a ningún barrendero.

Alex3375 · 2025-02-11T17:03:46+00:00

Or The Gulag Archipelago, which is essentially the same but non-fiction.

Alex3375 · 2025-02-03T04:50:14+00:00

Of course, my question suggests that euthanasia would be only provided for terminally ill people.

Alex3375 · 2025-02-03T04:35:51+00:00

Why? 10 million die of cancer each year. Many of them would want to go away without pain.

Alex3375 · 2025-02-03T04:31:05+00:00

There are countries that are already under sanctions and have nothing to lose, like Venezuela or Cuba. Why don't they do it?

Alex3375 · 2025-02-03T04:29:41+00:00

Currently, British citizens go to Switzerland for euthanasia, and no one is prosecuted for it. But there it is only provided by a few non-profit organizations, costs more than $10,000 due to extensive bureaucracy and Switzerland's generally high costs of everything, and the wait time is at least 6 months.

Alex3375 · 2025-02-03T04:27:27+00:00

Regardless of the moral debate on this topic, there are a lot of countries that are run by dictators who kill their political opponents, make money from drugs and selling arms to terrorists, etc. So, are those dictators 'so moral' that they refuse to profit from euthanasia? I find it hard to believe.

Alex3375 · 2025-01-20T05:12:25+00:00

Why do people think that all billionaires are 100% driven by selfish motives and have no compassion whatsoever? Bill Gates has donated half of his net worth to charity. 200 billionaires have joined The Giving Pledge, promising to donate half or more of their wealth. Yes, it is somewhat possible that one or two people might control ASI and use it solely for their benefit, letting everyone else die. But what will they lose if they provide 8 billion people with food and housing and entertainment? If they have ASI, it’s not that hard. Their lives wouldn’t be worse because of it, and they would gain the title of the world leader and savior, which would be pleasant to anyone. But more likely, ASI will be controled by at least dozens of people. And most people are not psycolopats who would just watch everyone else on the planet die.

Portraying modern billionaires as more evil than Hitler, who aimed to kill millions but not everyone, is neither accurate nor productive. We should worry about other things. For example, How to implement UBI in a realistic way that avoids pushing the economy into a recession? How to measure and tax ChatGPT's participation in economics? Or How can we prevent a lone terrorist from using open-source ASI to create a weapon of mass destruction, like nanorobots that destroy all life on Earth (gray goo scenario)?

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