Governments are these huge superorganisms that groups of people build in order to improve their lives and solve coordination problems. Like a huge survival robot for a group of people. But a pattern that seems to be emerging is that the robot often gets out of control. https://twitter.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1290009462820962304 …
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In theory, democracy is supposed to bind the power of the robot to the wishes of the people, but in practice power is very hard to bind. That power comes back around and acts on the people, shaping them to its wishes rather than being shaped by them.
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Power in the USA now charges people with a crime for defending their property from a mob. It hates the original Euro settlers and instead prefers other people who are more compliant. Power controls the Infosphere too. It is Taboo to even mention that the Power has gone rogue.
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Many people think that thinking about controversial issues is lowbrow and a waste of time; to some extent it is, but I also think that if and when humanity invents an unsafe/misaligned superintelligence, any attempt to fight back will have to deal with the same issues;
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
>Many people think that thinking about controversial issues is lowbrow That's not really the case - it's just that poking holes in a state religion passionately held by intellectuals is something they instinctively try to cast as lowbrow and that threat scares some people
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Keeping in mind that "controversial" simply means "area where progressivism is badly out of step with reality" - which is why "controversial" keeps expanding
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