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I'd argue we have learned. The problem is the fox got back in the henhouse after we took it out.
The general question which I don't think any of us have answers for is when we correct this again how do we make it permanent?
To paraphrasee the great Team America there will always be Dicks, Pussies and Assholes.
Yep. Sweeping market regulations were put in place after the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression.
Most of those reforms have already been removed now, in the ever-popular name of 'removing unnecessary regulation'.
To quote the great Battlestar Galactica:
The Trekkian belief in inevitable progress is an illusion. Humans are trapped by their psychology into corrupt systems until we destroy ourselves.
Until then, it's just a cycle of learning from our mistakes, to forgetting those lessons, to repeating those same mistakes, again, and again, and again.
Honestly, I think the Singularity -- real superintelligent AI -- might be our only chance of escaping this cycle of stupid. There's a chance that our new AI overlords could be benevolent and above this petty human bullshit.
Article: https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2138030/researchers-put-ai-chatbots-in-charge-of-a-simulated-world-this-one-destroyed-everythin
Well, that's why I said real superintelligent AI. What we've got now sure ain't it.
There was just an article on the front page somewhere about putting llms in charge of civilization in simulation. Claude's lasted the longest--ten days. Grok killed everyone in 3.