Realistically who wins the global ideology battle?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @nosilverv
I think both are headed to the dustbin of history but the intervening decades will be unpleasant
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Replying to @eigenrobot @nosilverv
What do you think of the argument that the CCP is coming to dominance at a point where authoritarianism can be scaled efficiently through tech, for the first time? i.e. that we're reaching an "authoritarianism singularity"
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Replying to @jeremiecharris @nosilverv
I don't think it's as scalable or as efficient as you might expect from current tech, basically If they got strong AI going yeah the chinese would be fucked Not sure they're there yet tho
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in the mean time the outward facing state is papering over a lot of holes and they're very suddenly meeting a lot of external resistance without any obvious new advantages
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basically though independent of the rest I'm skeptical of the scalability of totalitarianism a la china costs on the margin for control become very very high I think
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