as we see in Singapore and Michigan, plagues spread most readily via poor subaltern populations so as soon as AI and robotics get a little better, look for being poor to be declared a form of biological terrorism and for the War on Poverty to be prosecuted like the War on Terror
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That’s right about where the poor re-remember that guillotines are a cheap, scalable and well understood technology.
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somebody should write a glossy mechanical engineering design coffee table book called From Guillotine to Kalashnikov: A Tradition of Simplicity and Reliability
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Ohhhhh, okay
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They’re going to have to be self-maintaining as well. Forced labor is going to be cheaper for a while yet.
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