Also great for future gift giving

Don’t forget the power of forgiveness. To truly believe you are known entirely, and not only forgiven but loved is a powerful thing.

I think the whole point of this post is to highlight that that kind of love is a very narrow view of what the word can mean.

Love of your tribe USED to be commonplace. Love of our species and our planet could do us all a lot of good and I think it’s an admirable viewpoint to try to embody, particularly in the face of how difficult it is to feel these days.

This is an obvious overaimplification though. Many medical breakthroughs have been made in the US that have benefited people widely. But I agree that AI and robotics is going to lead to more suffering and oppression on its current trajectory.

Yeah I agree with you here. A general use diaster response robot is just naturally going to have a lot of overlap with a general use war support robot. It becomes a complicated issue and what we would hope would be the stop gap of intelligent and responsible goverment oversight and regulation is of course malevolent and entirely captured by greed and nefarious interests.

Ideally all the robotics and AI people would rebel and we would install some utopic democracy built on human prosperity and freedom, but it’s a hard coordination problem to solve and the deck is stacked against us.