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I call it the resistance problem. Lets say you were looking to (violently or non violently) resist the government. Governments don't have weaknesses in the st
by protocolture 3y ago
I call it the resistance problem.
Lets say you were looking to (violently or non violently) resist the government.
Governments don't have weaknesses in the sticks. You need to enter a highly surveiled space to meet them.
Time was that you could just drive into town, protest, go home.
But then cops started recording protests. So you had to wear protection. Masks, long sleeve coats etc.
Then with LPR, you would rather jump a train or something. because they will know down to the block who you are and were you parked. So public transport and some basic precautions was enough for most people. But now with AI and enough processing grunt, they will be able to follow the entire reverse journey of all protesters in semi real time without wasting human detective time.
So how do you do it? Protesting becomes something that can only be a one way trip. You either ignore the problem, or arm up and tear it down. No middle ground. Feedback mechanisms in democratic society stop functioning. Its either acceptance or suicide. Which further polarises society, which increases the disintegration of democratic systems. Its a big feedback loop.
Democracy has this implicit notion that it is the alternative to the violence necessary to remove a dictator. The country provides a non violent democratic pathway to remove the goverment, or people will inevitably just physically remove the government. Tools like AI will give governments more leeway to make themselves less democratic, and more dictatorial. And the end result of that is inevitable violence.