Comment by ganzuul

Ego gains status from a number of things which it needs in order to prove that it should survive. We are transitioning to an attention economy where the ego survival machine is detected as AI while our narrative says we should make a difference between machines and humans.

The more human AI gets the more difficult it will be to prove you are human so the status-incentive of the ego has self-deprecation in its path. We also stick together for strength, prune interpersonal interfaces, so we converge on a Star Trek type society. But that fictional narrative followed World War 3...

Egos have been conditioned to talk before resorting to violence by Mutually Assured Destruction for half a century, shaping language. Fake news about autonomous weapons is propagating, implying someone is trying to force the debate topic to where it really smarts. Ego gets starved, pinned down, and agitated. Ego isn't a unity but a plurality, so it turns on itself.

We get rich by making a pie that is much bigger than anyone's slice and happier by not eating like we are going to starve. You gain influence by someone's choice to retain the gift you gave. It's the parable of the long spoons, and hate holds no currency. The immune system gains the upper hand.