Disasters and Hard Times: how do the Portals relate ?

Today is September 11, the anniversary of the attacks in 2001. It's a natural time to ask questions like "How do the protocols initiated by AI Happiness Accelerator, which seem to aim for individual well-being, relate to the bigger picture of wars, famines, violence, pandemics, and natural disasters?"

It's a great question. Are we mainly individuals, concerned with our own contentment, or members of Society, or the world?

Of course the answer is both. They are intimately related. Individuality doesn't matter without Society, and vice versa.

The classic example of the way individual health relates to other-health is the speech you hear at the beginning of your plane flight. Make sure that your oxygen mask is in place and secured before you attempt to help others. You need stability, clear thinking, and calm emotions before you can diagnose and treat the problems of other people.

So what happens when one is optimized to regularly go through the core experiences which have historically represented the best of Humanity: Gratitude, Heroism, Awe, Laughter, Curiosity, Art, Storytelling, Brainstorming, and others unique to you?

What happens is that one's body-mind fires on all cylinders. One is saturated with knowledge of the extreme value of people, other life forms, and the planet. Skills which have been honed through peak experiences are available for use in a disaster.

One sees clearly that the supposed barriers between the individual and the group are valuable in some ways, but meaningless in others. It's not hard to tell the difference, and correct actions flow from this recognition.

Being mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy yourself makes you more able to bring about the same in others.

So you could say that something like AI Happiness Accelerator aims at BOTH personal and planetary fulfillment. They are inseparable.

And it's way more fulfilling to help everybody, than to help just one person.