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I'm not sure people will just take it though. In the short term it looks like the situation is on a horrible course but eventually people will have had enough.

I'm not sure people will just take it though. In the short term it looks like the situation is on a horrible course but eventually people will have had enough. I'm hoping it would take less time for that to happen and the damage will not be too great. Let's remember that we could use the same technology if not a better one to fight against all this.

xenodium 2y ago
> but eventually people will have had enough As a Venezuelan, I thought so too. 25 years on...
- bloopernova 2y ago
  A lot of US citizens are living incredibly comfortable lives. If that is threatened, for instance by food shortages caused by lack of people willing to work on farms for very low wages, then protests may happen. But the reality distortion field around the current administration is very powerful. Fox and CNN are owned by supporters of the republicans, NYTimes and Washington Post don't appear to be reporting certain aspects of the government restructuring. Multiple social media sites are owned and ran by people who support the current admin. I am personally worried that we're going to see the gradual yet continual escalation of rhetoric, more actions that undermine rule of law, and continued lack of critical thinking in so many people. That path appears to lead to extremism. I have a horrible feeling that whoever "wins" in a couple of decades or so will have no time to savour their utopia as the climate catastrophe really starts to bite hard.
  - Gothmog69 2y ago
    So you are a leftist who believes the economy can't operate without basically third world slaves working in your fields?
    - _heimdall 2y ago
      We enslaved the planet with industrialization and we are about to enslave AI, if we haven't already. Humans aren't on the losing end of that, but if your concern is with slavery itself that wouldn't matter.
_heimdall 2y ago
When a potential power imbalance is created, those willing to use it for selfish means will almost always win in the end. Anyone with morals driving their use of a new tech will be limited, and unless those people massively outnumber the few selfish ones they will lose eventually.
- tartoran 2y ago
  Losing a battle is painful but no win is final until things fall into a balance and even that doesn't last forever or it even reverse. The worst case scenario is not going to matter for anyone in the grand scheme of things because there will not be anyone around.

xenodium 2y ago

> but eventually people will have had enough As a Venezuelan, I thought so too. 25 years on...

bloopernova 2y ago
A lot of US citizens are living incredibly comfortable lives. If that is threatened, for instance by food shortages caused by lack of people willing to work on farms for very low wages, then protests may happen. But the reality distortion field around the current administration is very powerful. Fox and CNN are owned by supporters of the republicans, NYTimes and Washington Post don't appear to be reporting certain aspects of the government restructuring. Multiple social media sites are owned and ran by people who support the current admin. I am personally worried that we're going to see the gradual yet continual escalation of rhetoric, more actions that undermine rule of law, and continued lack of critical thinking in so many people. That path appears to lead to extremism. I have a horrible feeling that whoever "wins" in a couple of decades or so will have no time to savour their utopia as the climate catastrophe really starts to bite hard.
- Gothmog69 2y ago
  So you are a leftist who believes the economy can't operate without basically third world slaves working in your fields?
  - _heimdall 2y ago
    We enslaved the planet with industrialization and we are about to enslave AI, if we haven't already. Humans aren't on the losing end of that, but if your concern is with slavery itself that wouldn't matter.

_heimdall 2y ago

When a potential power imbalance is created, those willing to use it for selfish means will almost always win in the end. Anyone with morals driving their use of a new tech will be limited, and unless those people massively outnumber the few selfish ones they will lose eventually.

tartoran 2y ago
Losing a battle is painful but no win is final until things fall into a balance and even that doesn't last forever or it even reverse. The worst case scenario is not going to matter for anyone in the grand scheme of things because there will not be anyone around.