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Disenfranchising everyone at once beats disenfranchising enough to be a problem but not enough to motivate a solution, which is what the drip feeding achieves.
by fidotron 1mo ago
Disenfranchising everyone at once beats disenfranchising enough to be a problem but not enough to motivate a solution, which is what the drip feeding achieves.
- bluefirebrand 1mo agoI don't have any trust that the people left standing will ever be motivated enough to figure out a solution that doesn't involve letting the rest of us starve or actively having us killed
- fidotron 1mo agoGiven the rate of progress in robotics, if AI works then there won't be anyone left standing to worry about. That's the whole point of doing it fast, otherwise yes they will attempt to slow things down so they can take advantage of the intermediate state where some are still standing, temporarily, to get rid of the others. And that is very much what a lot of the current pausing noise is in aid of.
- asdfman123 1mo agoWhat people don't understand is that dictators don't kill everyone because they're just monsters. Well, they are monsters, but the reason they do it is because it's kill or be killed for them. You have to eliminate threats before they eliminate you. And believe me, LOTS of people will want to depose a world dictator.