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It all cumulates eventually into a race to singularity, which is a zero sum game. Whoever gets there first wins. I promise to make mine mostly benevolent. I th
by arminiusreturns 5y ago
It all cumulates eventually into a race to singularity, which is a zero sum game. Whoever gets there first wins. I promise to make mine mostly benevolent.
I think emp warfare (actually already quietly a thing) is going to be the in between for stuff like drones...
I hope the new generations of children are being taught old school survival skills, because they are probably going to need them.
One of the best books on the post nuclear world that I reference often is The Shield of Achilles, and one of the conclusions that sticks with me is that there will be a rise in corporate power and a fall of nation state power.
Fight club was right after all... "planet Starbucks" indeed.
- usui 5y agoI don't think a rise in corporate power and a fall of nation state power makes sense. At some point, some group is going to need to have a monopoly on violence. It doesn't matter if two groups of power don't have complete dominance over a geographic region, they are still two groups with power that look after their own kind and perform diplomacy.
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