OH "The next American civil war will be fought inside Fortnite, so it won't be that bad."
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I think such hopes are wrong for two reasons: 1. The harm of automation (and everything else going wrong) will make itself felt faster and stronger than the possibility of simply ignoring it via automated organized violence.
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2. Pacifist societies incapable of physically defending themselves are skittish ones, quick to surrender. I lived in Northern Spain when ETA was still kidnapping and blowing up the odd public space. The social impact of a bomb was astonishing. All fight disappeared in a moment.
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And this was in a society that had endured Europe's most violent and brutal civil war within living memory (the local parliament building still had fascist bullet holes in it). But they had no appetite for a war of attrition, and folded, and gave the Basques what they wanted.
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The bet is also that conquering and occupying territory, which made some sense in the twentieth century when wealth was correlated with geography, has been shown to be consistently not worth the cost any more. What exactly are the Huns going to take if they show up in Palo Alto?
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Google will build whatever search engine the Chinese want, if they're the ones doing the invading. For starters. They're already doing that and the bullets aren't even flying.
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That is ludicrous on so many levels I hardly know where to start. Will there be Chinese overseers walking the halls with guns, ensuring that the engineers don't write buggy code? On what planet does this make more sense than writing their own search engine?
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You're the ones who put barbarians in Palo Alto, not me.
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