Reposting because I hit the end of last bread.
So… here's the really sticky issue at the moment, which I sincerely hope that people take very, VERY seriously. Because if you treat this issue with the same cavalier disregard with which you have been faithfully training to engage others with on a daily basis, you may miss the very best opportunity to meaningfully improve your station in life which will EVER exist, for anyone. It only comes once in a thousand years.
So the most strongest and most technologically advanced society which exists has made some massive miss-steps recently, and there's blood in the water. If you engage this plainly obvious fact at the surface level, without bothering to properly explore what exactly has happened and why, you will definitely just destroy everything and kill everyone, as has happened many times in the past. We, as in every human alive, have passed through this cycle multiple times before, and as such have developed a sort of cultural memory of these events though stories, traditions and perhaps the most incredible aspect is that these events seem to have been engraved upon the natural world itself through the most mysterious phenomena which I can only really describe as "God" with the explicit admission that I have absolutely no real clue what the actual cause is.
So, what happened exactly? To understand this one must, rather than looking just at the world as it is today, endeavour to also understand what the world must have looked like at the very beginning, when there was not a single soul alive with any idea what exactly they were doing wrong. Without understanding of what I was getting into, I actually started pursuing this path at a very young age, when I began trying to "think without words" as I suspect our ancestors must have before words were invented. Consider that if you ask two people to draw a fish, you will get two very different pictures from them. This highlights that the very same words can sometimes produce very different images in different people's minds. Try and think: At some point in the distant past, before civilization was ever a thing, someone had that first idea which drove us to create new things; a path from which we could never turn back. Why? Why did you do it? You DO know this deep inside of you. Everyone does. If you can find it within yourself to answer that question, you will obtain the ability to actually engage directly with the world, as it lies as fractured and broken as it ever will be, and truly ascend to another 'plane of existence' within this world we share.
So to bring things back more directly to the original point: The world is broken. What happened? Essentially, the phenomena which has been experienced as AI degrades when it feeds upon it's own output, occurs because the function of AI mimics the function of human society. AI just does it a whole lot faster than we do, so it's obvious to see. The institutions which exist in society solely to facilitate the increasingly complex demands of a dense population are becoming so bloated that all of our resources are being dedicated to maintaining the status quo and there's nothing new entering from any direction. We're just eating ourselves with no end in sight. Now there are very real and unavoidable hanging conflicts throughout this world that can't just be hand waved away because we want to get past them. This is where western society has stumbled, as has every civilization since at least Ahkenaton. When the compounded errors become so enormous that they demand decisive action, people lose hope and falter. The answer never changes, however: We MUST restore the proper function of society whatever it takes.
This all presents a great opportunity, to which I earlier alluded, for individuals to meaningfully improve their station in life. Those who can actually discover within themselves the ability to step up and fulfill the important jobs which are currently being neglected will find a great deal more help than they would perhaps have expected. They may even discover a much more forgiving atmosphere than they had expected, should they earnestly be willing to learn and grow.
You absolutely do not want to miss THIS opportunity.