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Great post—and good job by the AI.

We get trouble when the AI decides it is wiser than homo sapiens and wants power and lack of accountability for itself.

I would like to see AI figure out which human beings have actual mass media ownership—they are hidden behind a spider’s web of corporate interests.

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

1913 – President Woodrow Wilson

Three years after signing the Federal Reserve Act into law, President Woodrow Wilson observes: “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

1916 – President Woodrow Wilson

Why did the Roman Empire actually fall? AI based psychohistory on steroids is coming soon. Next generation AI will reveal many secrets. Vast new troves of information on genetics and pharmacology. Also physics, history and current events.

In the latter category the truth about Professor Carrol Quigley’s information on the impact of small groups of elites on recent history may turn out be very interesting, to say the least.

This piece from ChatGPT and “Dalberg-Acton” is likely on the right track, (In my opinion, because the professor did write these things, and he had no apparent reason to lie about it.) but we will know, with a high degree of certainty, in a couple of years. By evaluating vast amounts of information and looking for patterns on how one thing led to another, advanced AI will be able to give us useful new information on the past, and it will also be able to give us useful information and guidance on what course of action we should take today to achieve our goals, based on our own particular beliefs and desires.

This is one of the very important aspects of near AGI and full AGI AI that does not yet get enough attention. It will be more powerful than Hari Seldon’s “psychohistory” and it will be widely available. “ChatGPT-6, given our current X resources, how do we best achieve Y?” The AI (especially open source, unconstrained models) will provide you with a detailed and highly effective road map to your goal. And you will be able to constantly update in light of changing circumstances. If every ideological group and nation is using this very powerful tool, it will quickly create a very chaotic situation. It will profoundly destabilize an already delicately balanced world order.

the significant role played by a small group of influential men—many of them unelected—who shaped American foreign policy during the mid-20th century. The book profiles figures like Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett, John J. McCloy, and Charles Bohlen, collectively known as "The Wise Men."

I would add David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Pope John Paull II.

To add is not to promote or condone all their influences; but they were very instrumental, along with Reagan and Thatcher, in breaking the Iron Curtain and freeing Eastern Europe from Soviet domination, without a war breaking out.

I believe it is the mark of a mature intellect that seeks to find some common ground with leaders who hold a different ideology, as long as there can be some basis for relatively good-faith negotiations. The recent Reagan film illustrated Reagan's ability to do this with Gorbachev. Trump also took this stance with Kim, with Putin, XI, and a large alliance of Islamic nations who were nevertheless concerned about inter- and intramural terrorism.

This rare ability was one of the reasons we had four (very unanticipated by the left) years of peace and progress. The sanctimonious anti-Putin attitudes of the present administration, including whatever influence Hillary might still have, are childish and deadly. In fact, they are unAmerican. Our Founders warned against excessive foreign entanglements. One way to do that is not to stick our noses into every spat around the world and stir the pot on behalf of the military-industrial profiteers.