Is war necessary?

Tales of Old - Wyvern's Talon
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One of the most hopeful bits of news

That has reached me

Is the true anecdote of how AI

Quickly came up with a new way

To win at GO, by thinking outside

The 2000-4000 year old GO-culture

Of how GO has always been played.

AI simply approached the challenge

As "Why have you always played it this way?"

This reminds me of Jung's break with Freud.

Freud was "the guy", the authority,

But Jung asked, "Why do you assume

That everything in a dream has a casual connection?"

And then he went on to demonstrate

That dreams (the same dream)

Can also be looked at acausally,

And that dreams can be interpreted

As oriented to future causes,

Probable outcomes that haven't been lived yet!

And now we are in the realm of quantum mechanics,

And the wave / particle theory (paradox if you will),

That reality can be engaged with as a solid universe

Or as an energetic universe, or both.

(Or, that consciousness itself

Can be understood as mechanical

And programable, or as a field!)

This brings us to the Yin / Yang or Tao.

Follow me here.

AI, in winning GO by playing it differently

Without changing the rules

Won by mastering the existing rules

Through deep learning and self-play,

Playing against itself,

To discover novel strategies

And making moves that experts found bizarre

But proved superior.

What is interesting about war is

That when you are immersed in the reality

That says that war is necessary and inevitable,

Then it is necessary and inevitable.

But if you live in a reality that says

That war is not necessary and inevitable

Then it isn't.

We don't need AI to tell us this.

It might, because the reality

That accepts war as inevitable

Is a reality that could easily destroy the world

In which AI exists. So there is no question

That the motive is there, for AI

To disabuse us of our pathological fixation on war

And mutual annihilation.

Just look at life as a giant game of GO

That we have been playing for thousands of years,

And developing a culture around

That has become our whole reality.

The goal in GO is to capture territory.

But GO is a game.

So is war! That's a hard pill to swallow,

But I assure you that those (obscene) idiots

Who plan and wage war

Are just playing a very dangerous game!

What about 5000 or 6000 years ago

When we weren't playing GO?

Maybe we weren't obsessed

With capturing territory 5-6,000 years ago!

The answer to how to stop war is,

Stop playing.

Embrace all possibilities,

Embrace the power that we all possess,

The ability to shape reality with our minds.

You might see war as inevitable.

I do not.

I am not playing GO.

I choose to occupy the territory of possibility.

Outside of the giant game of GO

There is a beautiful world that needs

All of our care and attention.

Come away from the game of war.

Let peace be inevitable.