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I'm curious to hear someone explain why you're being downvoted
by Zetaphor 9mo ago
I'm curious to hear someone explain why you're being downvoted
- CalRobert 9mo agoMaybe the dead in forty years comment. Though considering accelerating climate collapse and the possibility of nuclear conflict it’s not completely unreasonable in my view.
- close04 9mo agoI read it as we’ll be dead because most people on this forum are 30+ years old and will statistically be dead ~70. Most of us, not most of humanity.
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- _factor 9mo agoBecause it is defeatist and helps no one? “Just give up, it’s a hard problem.”
- jll29 9mo agoOut of all places on the Web, this one should be where solutions to (get rid of/limit the surveillance state) are devised. If the HN community doesn't have the will or skill, who else has?
- _heimdall 9mo agoWell that's very interesting. Why do you expect HN is the most likely place on the internet for people with the will or skill to take down the security state? I would have guessed it was more likely this is where you'd find the people who built the security state, not want to destroy it.
- AyyEye 9mo agoYour bio says you are an AI professor. As far as I can tell the AI industry seems to be the mass surveillance machine's magnum opus. How do you square that circle?
- PlatoIsADisease 9mo agoIts the demagogue problem in democracy. People love idealism. It never works, but it sounds amazing. Reddit, HN, and every democracy has the same problem... at least for a few years. I think after this bout of Trumpism, the republicans will not be able to elect another populist demagogue for a generation. I think democrats need to do a round as well.
- direwolf20 9mo agoWho said there will be elections? Trump repeatedly said there won't be elections.