I suppose I successfully reduced my time spent reading outrage media, because this surprised me.
I still believe nothing will happen (or rather, epsilon-sized incidents will happen, and the media will completely blow it out of proportion), but I have no skin in this game so it’s easier for me to be cynical.
But if I wanted to start a civil war in USA—whether for political reasons, or just as a side effect of generating advertising paperclips—writing this kind of articles would be the obvious first step. The second step would be “hey, we are all nice and peaceful people who definitely don’t want to go out and break our neighbors’ skulls, but since we have already established that they are going to attack us anyway, we might as well hit them first.”
I suppose I successfully reduced my time spent reading outrage media, because this surprised me.
I still believe nothing will happen (or rather, epsilon-sized incidents will happen, and the media will completely blow it out of proportion), but I have no skin in this game so it’s easier for me to be cynical.
But if I wanted to start a civil war in USA—whether for political reasons, or just as a side effect of generating advertising paperclips—writing this kind of articles would be the obvious first step. The second step would be “hey, we are all nice and peaceful people who definitely don’t want to go out and break our neighbors’ skulls, but since we have already established that they are going to attack us anyway, we might as well hit them first.”