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Last week has convinced me that the End of Power/Moses Naim argument is basically bullshit, as is the idea of fully automated luxury space communism. This is not the final people's revolution but the zeroth robot revolution: neo-manorialism above the API, robotics below the API.
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This is a tldr of an argument I've been developing that will take me several essays to unpack, so I'm not going to try to do it here.
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Okay I guess I'll say one thing: I'm pretty much 100% in favor of this outcome. There is a deep denial of a reality principle in any sort of "end of power" argument. Power is life itself. It doesn't end. It just rearranges itself.
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The one big thing you can learn about popular uprisings from history is that they change nothing unless the classes above have reasons to seek a reconfiguration of power at higher levels. They're just flash floods that drain away unless parties with more power capture them.
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Where they go wrong is assuming that the ones who were on top under the old configuration of power will/should continue to be on top in the new configuration of power. Just because "the people" will definitionally never be on top doesn't mean the top never changes.
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The power structure doesn't go away, but the seats of power are filled with a different set of people. To truly reconfigure power structures requires innovations in institutional design, which is much much harder than changing people in seats.