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I predict that the Chinese style of governance will eventually succeed and will be improved upon by others. They seem to be able to get away with everything. Ch
by goombastic 8y ago
I predict that the Chinese style of governance will eventually succeed and will be improved upon by others. They seem to be able to get away with everything. Chinese style data oriented micromanagement of populations is likely to be the norm for the future. You cannot escape algorithms judging you and placing you in a category. The "category" that will define your experience of the world from then on. Western tech companies are complicit in all of this.
As people in the field, we need to resist this at every turn but the money is just too great of a lure for now.
- kopo 8y agoPeople just have to be told what direction we can head in. I like the way Yanis Varoufakis frames the matter - do you want a Matrix style future where the machines control you or a Star Trek kind of future where the machines take care of all the mundane BS and we get to go places we haven't gone before. I don't think there is a big debate about what people will choose. We just have to get the mindlessly ambitious minority of the population with god emperor delusions to behave themselves.
- mleonhard 8y agoWe need a way to get there from here. We will never reach Star Trek style society if we just continue as we are. I think we need to transition to socialist democracy. But how to start?
- kopo 8y agoNovember elections are going to be very interesting. I think Bernie and the next generation of Bernie's who manage to also connect with some part of the rural votebase can take us in the right direction. Fingers crossed.