> In theory, yes. In practice, the circle has been continually expanding with technological progress. Only if by continually you mean in sum. The holocaust and

> In theory, yes. In practice, the circle has been continually expanding with technological progress. Only if by continually you mean in sum. The holocaust and the genocide that have come since were pretty huge back slides and the tran Atlantic slave trade was a fairly new innovation in scale and kind even if slavery had existed before. Both of those seem if anything enabled by technology. And certainly the rich and powerful are unlikely to to kill absolutely everyone else, but I thought earlier you were arguing that AI would see the end of the rich and powerful. Now you're just saying they'll want to have pets