Moral wars: In the future wars will last seconds

• Technology is accelerating as knowledge is increasing.
• The world is opening and people are being brought closer together in superficial ways.
• Morally the world is very divided as many people feel morally superior to others and wish to enforce their morality on all.
• Warfare is going to evolve due to network warfare, AI (autonomous weapons)

In a network battle of the future, the key players of highest will be neutralized nearly instantaneously by autonomous mechanisms we cannot fathom. Because we cannot fathom it as civilians, we have no defense against it. The very openness and connectedness can be used against any individual in a future conflict, as all information can be manipulated, and disinformation will become more widespread or perhaps even ubiquitous.

In the future we will all be deceived in wars which last seconds for purposes we won't understand using autonomous mechanisms we cannot fathom. I would like to be wrong about this and have more hope for the future but the current trajectory looks like it will lead to great conflict mainly due to these reasons listed below:

• 1 Humans like to judge others and feel morally superior. This instinct will likely drive many wars where one group of humans will use force to require other groups of humans to adopt what they perceive as a superior morals, culture, etc.
• 2 Humans like technology and automation and this will not stop. Weapons will become smaller, smarter, more precise at targeting, and more automated. Big data and AI will make for very quick efficient wars where a small number of individuals are targeted based on criteria only the machines understand.
• 3 Blockchain and decentralization, even if there are some good use cases for the blockchain and security benefits to decentralization, there of course are risks and insecurities which will appear as well. These insecurities will be exploited in cyberwarfare scenarios.

It has been my hope that by decentralizing AI we can give humanity a chance to avoid some of these very negative outcomes. If everyone can access AI then we can actually benefit from the openness, from the connectedness, without a central entity to filter or manipulate our thinking. The point is we need to be a lot smarter, we need to be a lot better at decision making, our morals have to evolve a lot, and we need to judge less and understand a lot more. The current culture in the United States is a punishment based society where openness is being encouraged while punishments for mistakes are increasingly becoming harsher. The justice system has not evolved at the pace of Facebook, or Google, or our knowledge of neuroscience, and as a result, a completely open society while it sounds nice, is likely to result in a lot of criminals, a lot of bad laws which get enforced, a lot of social justice battles which are based on limiting concepts like nationality, race, gender, sexuality, only with much higher technology, much easier access to information, etc.

Only if the people interpreting the information evolve our thinking can we the people interpreting make better decisions on how to use our technology. This unfortunately isn't happening even in crypto space where technology is built and then how best to use it to make a better world is thought about after the fact. Our brains, our emotions, our instincts, are our limiting factors.

Our human limiting factors have to be transcended if we are going to navigate the complex society we are creating, and we can use AI to transcend our own ignorance if we develop AI with this in mind. This means as developers we will have to assume we are far more ignorant than future users of our platform will be and design the platform so that future users can learn how to improve themselves and the platform in synergism. This loop or virtuous circle of self improvement can then allow the users to improve the state of the world by improving themselves, becoming more effective people (or cyborgs if you want).