The AIs do care, the humans are beloved pets. High functioning pets that need a lot of room to play.
Edit: The example I heard about once is that as dogs are to humans, humans are to AI minds. A dog wouldn't understand why you brought him to the vet for a painful treatment, but it was for the dog's own good. A human couldn't understand an AI's motives because a human's mind is on a lower level of sentience.
Warlord Chronicles is great. Always makes me crave playing a welsh ruler in crusader kings 2, 867 start, and forming prydain. Culture converting all vassals and provinces is mandatory, get bored afterwards.
Theres actually a CK2 mod for Warlord Chronicles, but it's not that good.
sleepyegg
3d ago
I view having the baby to save the marriage as a high-risk, high reward hail mary gambit. It has a good chance of working on the right type of guy, the guy who will support his offspring and offspring's mother, if only because motherless children have poor outcomes.
It will definitely not work on a deadbeat dad.
Oh, yeah that's true. Even happened to a friend of mine about a decade ago. Probably more true for the boomer generation than younger generations.
Still, where there used to exist general social pressure to marry (without a bun in the oven) it no longer exists outside of some foreign cultures, religions, and insulated subgroups.
sleepyegg
4d ago
Total guess: A majority of marriages from the boomer generation are actually at least somewhat unhappy. Marriages lead to children pretty reliably though. Given lack of social pressure to marry, people choose not to marry, believing it will lead to greater happiness.
sleepyegg
4d ago
Where does it end? Dunno, but my magic 8-ball says 'outlook not so good". You, alone are not responsible for civilizational decline. Attempt to guide your friends and family to take advantage of the situation as much as possible. Women of repute will continue to be in high demand, and should be reassured of this and protected. Men should emulate Lothario. Alternatively, join a social/cultural/religious group immune to the current trends.
sleepyegg
4d ago
Well, it's fair to say the original sin of slavery is probably held by any large states that exist today, and thus indirectly by all modern populations except maybe the tiny islanders like the Sentinelese. Rome, Chinese dynasties, pretty much everywhere that won wars used some form of slavery.
America's slavery was in more recent memory and the ex-slaves have not fully genetically mixed into the descendants. Also Biden wanted to score some points with his voting base, so that was just tossing red meat (blue meat?) to the base.
Other than that, the justification for slavery, uplifting from barbarism, is bad from a modern Christian perspective. So a constant Christian apology must be given for the original sin of the past. The apologies will continue until the US is gone or until all of the US could be considered black.
sleepyegg
4d ago
No need for alien space bats, a nuclear barrage exchange is sufficient to reduce our tech base level if the destruction is thorough enough. Like the cannibal slaver gangs from Fallout.
Yes, very much so. US black TFR is low - but their TFR is not the one that matters, it's the black African TFR that will immigrate and likely assimilate into US black culture. US/Canada are immigrant powered capitalist countries traditionally powered by immigrant labor. Even though AI is reducing the need for some labor, AI will not replace blue collar labor anytime soon. If we AI can replace my roof and fix my plumbing, we are in a very different, nearly post-scarcity society.
When latino immigration and TFR eventually dries up, as it is already doing, the last source of able bodied blue collar workers will be from Africa. The US by then will be older, much more latino, and in need of immigrant labor that can only be sourced in sufficient numbers from Africa. No one else will be willing to do blue collar work. We see the first signs of this in Somali immigration to the US, who are highly incentived to immigrate for a better life, and they are working blue collar jobs Americans don't really want.
Yes, true. But the culture of preindustrialized African societies is not the same as US blacks. Unless you are thinking that the propensity to enslave is genetic, rather than sociocultural, economic, and political opportunism. From the perspective of the Africans selling slaves back then, they were mostly selling the populations of rival tribes who were enemies. The romans enslaved the gauls, and they probably had a similar skin tone too. Selling off slaves of enemy populations was both profitable and weakened them in potential future conflicts. It was a good idea to sell them to distant strangers if possible, so the slaves would be unlikely to return for revenge.
So, the colonial age Africans who sold rival Africans were just doing what all of warring humanity had always done until the modern age. It does not mean US blacks will be more likely than average to sell other US blacks into slavery.
It's very unlikely that slavery will come back for blacks, at least in the US. White TFR in both the US and Europe is sinking. Why? Feminism, cost of living, more educated women, contraceptives, the list goes on. Only in Africa is TFR still high, and it's possible that there will be substantial black African immigration to the US in the future to replace an increasingly aging white workforce.
You should be rejoicing over the current population trends. The US will be increasingly black, and it's not as if black people will choose to enslave their own tribe. Or actually, the US might be increasingly latino, so the risk is that latinos decide to enslave blacks.
Let me suggest a course of action to better secure the future for all blacks. With no sarcasm, just impregnate as many females as you can, focusing particularly on latino and white women. Impregnating white women reduces the threat of a a white majority eliminating the 13th amendment, like you fear. Impregnanting latino women is securing the near future, which is likely to be latino dominated. Latino TFR is dropping too, so after that it will just be black TFR maintaining the world population.
Mixed race children with black ancestry are often treated as just black. The larger tribe is usually safer, especially in a democracy.
TLDR:
Don't want to be a slave? Make your tribe bigger, embrace democracy. HBD says my tribe is dumb? Who cares, I impregnated your tribe's women, we are all my tribe now.
sleepyegg
5d ago
I would say the renewal of chattel slavery isn't impossible in US - but it would require dramatic changes in culture and/or government to be possible. It would at minimum take a constitutional amendment and broad social acceptance.
At that point, historians would be looking back and say, yeah, that's the end of 'classical' western civilization and the rise of 'neo-western' civilization.
sleepyegg
6d ago
Sigh. Bit of a letdown to my ego, I rather enjoyed thinking of myself as open-minded.
This is a terrible lie. Height is probably a top screening factor for most women. There's also social pressure to avoid the appearance of couples where the man is noticably shorter.
In my experience, the compensating factor needed for short men is to be wealthier, more aggressive in proactively meeting women, and learning how to make others laugh. None of these came naturally to me.
sleepyegg
7d ago
Well crap, maybe I am ND too. Is posting and enjoying other Motte posts a sign of ND? I feel similarly about that "open minded" thing.
That logistics manager might be open to an affair, if you are presenting as a straight man. YMMV, but the complaint about her husband not sexually gratifying her (hair pulling) is sometimes an innocuous way of telling other men she is sexually available. It's just slightly too much information for a married woman to give a male friend or coworker, but not too much information if you were actively looking for an opening. Otherwise, that type of conversation is usually reserved for other women or gay men.
As you already eat together, you both already have the perfect cover to bump uglies while 'working'.
Oh yes, I did. The mod is just not quite done and feels empty, but it's been 2 years+ since I last tried it so it may be better now.
I have 0% Welsh, Irish, or Anglo-Saxon ancestry but when I reread Warlord Chronicles I feel an insatiable urge to drive the Angles and Saxons back into the sea, just as Arthur would have wanted.
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