Idealism. Meet reality.

This is (some of) what I want for humanity:

- No country has a military force of any kind

- No country owns any form of military weapon

- Turn all of that into a massive world-wide humanitarian force

- In fact, no countries

- Just earth, owned by humans who can move freely about

- Rich nations helping poor nations improve and elevate to first world standards

- I don't want to see a single kid without clean drinking water, clean clothes and access to top grade education, health, etc.

- No dictators (oops, we might need weapons for that part)

- No totalitarian regimes (oops, we might need weapons for that part)

- All societies ought to recognize that humans are naturally free on this planet and no government has the right to affect this right in any way

- A uniform means of exchange (a single currency)

- The poor and the elderly taken care of by those who can work

- No guns

- No crime as a pre-condition to "no guns". Yes, it's hard. We put men on the moon. Figure it out.

- No taxation. Governments use it to control and manipulate. History shows it is a bad thing.

- A universal earth-wide bill of rights

- No prisons except for really serious crimes. Everyone else needs to go to serious rehabilitation centers in preparation for a return to society.

- No welfare or entitlements. The current approach makes slaves out of people who would otherwise figure it out and make something of themselves. This does not mean not helping the truly needy or elderly, that goes without saying. The system should not be game-able.

- One free international trip for everyone on the planet every five years. Yes, we all pay for it. This alone will do more to unify and shrink our planet than anything else. A different continent every trip.

- Laws that create very serious consequences for politicians who lie and manipulate (among other things)

- In fact, no politicians as we have them today. Those who wish to work in government ought to seek and obtain degrees and training to specifically qualify them for the jobs they seek. If an engineer or a doctor needs a degree to discharge their duties we should have similar requirements for government officials. They should be absolute experts with a wide range of experience and knowledge. They should be the best of the best, not the shit we get today around the world. It should be based on merit and accomplishments. It should not be based on gaining votes through pandering or the mobilization of the ignorant masses. There should NOT BE ignorant masses.

- A world-wide educational system that is evolved through collaboration with the goal of elevating everyone to the highest possible level. Yes, that means no US-style unions anywhere near education.
- No religion. Enough. It's 2015. We understand the atom and the universe and lots of stuff in between to an amazing degree. No more deranged lunatics who believe that a bush can sing, a snake can talk and a god can help them pass a test. If we don't get past this shit we are nothing more than apes in a cave. Sorry.

When beings from another planet land on earth we need to show them we have evolved out of the caves, we have taken care of our planet, created a beautiful society with low crime, excellent health, education, responsible social programs and NO FUCKING WARS.

OK, well, that's what I truly want, and more. Each one of those line items could be a months-long discussion as to the merits, or lack thereof, of the idea. I don't claim to be right. It is quite possible that some or all of this might not be attainable for centuries.

Yet, it seems to me it could be interesting to develop a "Business Plan for Humanity" whereby a set of long term goals put down to cover what we want an idealized earth to look like at some point in the future. Unless we have a plan we can't possibly hope to approach any reasonable vision of an idealized future. Utopia? Probably.

In other words, the problem isn't Ai-based weapons. The problem is that we don't know what the fuck we are doing and we are doing a horrible job of living on this planet in harmony with each other and the planet itself. We are still cave men.

And then you have the reality of regimes like Iran, China, North Korea, Putin's Russia and a huge chunk of the Middle East (just to name a few).

The first has people in power openly call for the destruction of other nations. Not good.

The second does whatever the fuck it wants, cares not for the environment, intellectual property and pretty much cares not for ethical or moral behavior at the national and international level. If anyone is going to have killer AI-based robots first it's China. In other words, the reality of China's behavior pretty much guarantees being in an undeclared arms race with the potential of culminating with results that will dwarf World War II (a billion dead?).

North Korea? I don't think I need to spell that out.

Putin's Russia, well, he's fucking crazy. The place is a mess. On any given Monday we could wake up to an absolute disaster in Europe at the hands of Russia.

Middle East? Women are stoned to death for the most ridiculous reasons. Women are not allowed to obtain education. Women have to live their lives wearing a tent. Men can be killed if they shave. Name another region where kids are taught to become suicide bombers? Here's a region on this planet where people have devolved into tribal or cave-men thinking. If they didn't have oil the world would not give them the time of day and they'd be forced to join the world as productive members of society. Because they have oil the civilized world allows them to mistreat, torture, kill and subjugate half or more of their society. What does this say about the human condition and the prospects to convince such nations or nations like China not to do Ai-based weaponry?

It's complicated. Simply calling for no Ai-based robotic weapons will not do a damn thing. We have to change who we are, how we see each other, how we behave, how we see our future and how we think about our collective long term goals while living on this insignificant blue marble floating about universe.