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Government overreach and the surveillance state don't end willingly. Amassing power is a dangerous thing, those in charge will keep doing it as long as they can
by _heimdall 3y ago
Government overreach and the surveillance state don't end willingly. Amassing power is a dangerous thing, those in charge will keep doing it as long as they can get away with it.
I think the real question is how long can this go on before the people have no way to stop it if they wanted to.
- whatevaa 3y agoKiller robots. Call me nuts, but then smart autonomous killing machines appear, which don't require human control (so zero empathy), then it will come, slowly. It's already hard to protest against anything with police in control, and when army steps in they can take complete control (see army coups in some other countries). Taking humans and their 'silly' empathy out of the equation would just make that even easier. Just don't cause too much unrest at once. And some countries already can't be stopped. See Russia, a mafia state. They just beated protests until 'morale improved'.