Like binaural beats for the eyes?
AI is the greatest accelerant of our species demise.
If I was given the choice by a genie, on the one side you have your laptop, Lemmy, car, etc, but millions of people an animals suffer, or on the other hand, our tech evolves more slowly and sustainably, I’d choose the latter every time.
I’ll take being 30 years behind and still have <insert any species we’ve driven extinct>. An entitlement to the lives and well being of others for the sake of “progress” is pretty sick.
There is no solution that involves billions of people buying things.
Ya, it’s also massive ecological damage so we can all go “ooooh ahhh!”
Pledges reek of authoritarianism to me, so maybe replace it with a common saying like “Be excellent to each other because we have no more or less entitlement to this world than any other being and our individual perspective is at best a tiny viewport not to be confused with reality”
Bad by association and the hivemind are my faves, I particular enjoy:
“Evolutionary psychology is inherently bad, useless, and only stupid people could have such thoughts. Science as I understand it is the only valid way of thinking.”
“Dosing a population with fluoride via tap water is inherently a 100% good thing and to question it implies ones utter stupidity, drugging a population this way with any other substance would be unthinkable though.”
“Guns for civilians have no use other than school shootings, no good person should want a gun they must be banned.”
“Boomers caused all of our problems, despite the fact that I also willingly participate in all the harmful systems that caused these problems.”
Pointless reply, not all suffering has the same cause of course, but most of the unnecessary suffering (i.e. that suffering of all sentient beings on top that which occurs due to the nature of life itself) is caused by human activity, specifically where selfish individuals have felt entitled to cause suffering in others, destroy ecosystems, extinct species, and oppress peoples in pursuit of their goals.
The world is not ours to consume.