Two sources to enlighten this conversation:
1) http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills --12 million non-jew dissenters also murdered by the nazi regime. Also,
2) http://peikoff.com/lr/home.htm --”The Ominous Parallels” by Leonard Peikoff—the Weimar was already philosophically and legally decayed. When you eliminate jury trials and robust freedom of speech, you get a tyrannical (and possibly democidal) regime
The prospect of an existential or near-existential risk from a Singularity-delaying/preventing tyranny is the primary reason to be a rationalist—if you’re enough of one to allocate your resources toward a viable strategy of preventing democide.
Two sources to enlighten this conversation: 1) http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills --12 million non-jew dissenters also murdered by the nazi regime. Also, 2) http://peikoff.com/lr/home.htm --”The Ominous Parallels” by Leonard Peikoff—the Weimar was already philosophically and legally decayed. When you eliminate jury trials and robust freedom of speech, you get a tyrannical (and possibly democidal) regime The prospect of an existential or near-existential risk from a Singularity-delaying/preventing tyranny is the primary reason to be a rationalist—if you’re enough of one to allocate your resources toward a viable strategy of preventing democide.
Thanks Jake Witmer 312-730-4037