I think it’s likely that people will be enough of a threat to prevent the kind of outcome you’re proposing, which is why I think this model is interesting. You seem to disagree. Would you agree that that’s the crux of why we disagree?
(I don’t disagree that what you say is possible. I just think it’s not very likely to happen and hence not the “happy” path of my model.)
I don’t know how much time you spend thinking about the distribution of power, roughly speaking between the masses and the money+power clumps. For me in the past few years it’s been a lot. You could call it becoming “woke” in the original sense of the word; this awareness seems to be more a thing on the left. And the more I look, the more I see the balance is tilting away from the masses. AI weapons would be the final nail, but maybe they aren’t even necessary; maybe divide-and-conquer manipulation slightly stronger than today will be already enough to neutralize the threat of the masses completely.
I think it’s likely that people will be enough of a threat to prevent the kind of outcome you’re proposing, which is why I think this model is interesting. You seem to disagree. Would you agree that that’s the crux of why we disagree?
(I don’t disagree that what you say is possible. I just think it’s not very likely to happen and hence not the “happy” path of my model.)
It’s the crux, yeah.
I don’t know how much time you spend thinking about the distribution of power, roughly speaking between the masses and the money+power clumps. For me in the past few years it’s been a lot. You could call it becoming “woke” in the original sense of the word; this awareness seems to be more a thing on the left. And the more I look, the more I see the balance is tilting away from the masses. AI weapons would be the final nail, but maybe they aren’t even necessary; maybe divide-and-conquer manipulation slightly stronger than today will be already enough to neutralize the threat of the masses completely.