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> The collective west enjoyed a period of prosperity because it had massive technological advantage. The Spanish had guns, as it was said in 1898 by Hilaire Be
by SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
> The collective west enjoyed a period of prosperity because it had massive technological advantage. The Spanish had guns,
as it was said in 1898 by Hilaire Belloc: "Whatever happens, we have got. The Maxim gun, and they have not."
In that case it was the British who had just slaughtered a lot of Matabele in Africa.
> Losing the AI race is an existential threat to our civilization.
Lol. If winning it means a sea of hallucinated "factual" text and deepfake videos, then that death of truth is also a threat. Being rid of that is no threat at all.