Politics is also the very same reason I suspect the good ending is still possible with a reasonable chance. The Luddites went and physically smashed things to p

Politics is also the very same reason I suspect the good ending is still possible with a reasonable chance. The Luddites went and physically smashed things to pieces. That's a little harder these days, but you're already starting to see writers going on strike and the "pause development of things bigger than GPT-4 for 6 months" letter, and Geoffrey Hinton quitting Google then doing the rounds in the media warning of danger etc. The temperature is visibly rising. Imagine what a large pissed off angry mob of newly disempowered people can do. What's more is the psyops that motivated actors are conceivably going to be able to run at scale to manipulate and radicalize people to join their cause and get them to do who knows what. It's going to be one hell of an interesting ride.