The Platform

In plain terms, we are living in an era of increasingly advanced technology. AI now generates content at less than 1/100th of the cost for traditional production methods. Automated systems are capable of increasingly complex work, and even concepts once considered science fiction like immortality and mind reading are now in stages of laboratory success. All of this is happening now, as experts claim that the pace of progress has already begun on an exponential path where scientific breakthroughs will occur faster and faster than ever before.

Despite this scientific progress, despair is on the rise. Deaths of despair have more than doubled in the past 20 years. Around 46% of young adults have no romantic relationship experience - twice the historical rate. 6 out of 10 US adults are overweight or obese, and similar 60% or so of adults drink alcohol - a known neurotoxin which the liver does not differentiate from any other poison. Political polarization is at all time highs. Problems of the modern world are reaching crisis points all at once.

Our goals are primarily to end substance abuse through the recognition of its universal plight and support with resources previously used to criminalize and oppress lower classes. The deployment of advanced technology to alleviate the frictions of beaurocracy, and greater human connection recognizing determinism (The idea that we are all to some extent set on paths outside of our control due to birth location, position, natural disasters, accidents of fate, etc) and the closing gap in the significance of human abillity thanks to automation. In other words, all human beings are worthy of basic dignities and provisions as productive output continues to exponentiate past the actual burden of meeting people's basic needs. We also believe in the expanding of definitions of basic needs to include basic shelter - which many still fail to acknowledge - as well as compassion, understanding, and validation within reason.

One of the most important things you can do to keep up in an ever more complicated world is to defend your sobriety like your life. AI generates increasingly realistic content, scams and organizations become increasingly more sophisticated, and evil lurks where brain fog and ignorance prevent people from recognizing it and calling it out. The best thing you can do for yourself, if nothing else, is get and stay clean and help those around you accomplish this goal as well. Otherwise your mind can be taken advantage of, and you can be enslaved any number of different ways.