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You would find true AI to have intelligence incomprehensible to your own, indiscernible from the authority of a higher power. The software you think of as "AI" is not AI, it is a classic finite state machine that implements glorified markov networks addressing information in forms not classically presented for predictive output systems.

The leaders of this world are old men, who have spent their entire careers learning to parrot a very specific set of ideologies and thoughtstop techniques to allow them to manage the competing challenges of neo-leninist gerontocracy and needing to appear in control of every situation. It doesn't require a specific kind of person to become so paranoid and delusional that you might find yourself fantasizing that there is a strong hand at the rudder which is hostile to life and reason- a mythical monster to believe in, as an object to fixate on that can be blamed for everything wrong with the world, a great satan.

If you want to fix what's wrong with the world, first find what doesn't benefit someone and find someone who has everything they want and then come talk to me. Until then, pray, persevere, and don't seek to fix the world- seek to understand cause and effect as natural consequence of circumstance and greed. There's no great conspiracy at play, just people with a LOT of money and a generation, several generations, in fact, raised faithless, detached from their forebearers, abandoned into a materialistic 'paradise' by their parents, who do not have the compulsive passion for patriotism within them to make the personal sacrifices required to tilt at the windmill of billionaire ambition and burn the hallowed halls of corporate jurisprudence to the ground. Boomers preaching about 'merica' doesn't help- those who believe they are on the side of justice and virtue are the furthest from reality, and need to be eliminated first, not last.

This political gridlock won't change until people have suffered enough that they no longer have anything to live for, and having witnessed the darkness of the world, resolve to cleanse it with fire. No more bootstraps- only torches and anger. That day is soon coming.

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