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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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
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.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1267136613185810434 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrThe 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.Show this thread2 replies 3 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
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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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There is the well known Pareto circulation of elites theory (foxes and lions, basically liberal vs. conservatives), and in general, that's true. But there are times when new classes get activated and take power from both.
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In India you mean? That I can't guess, but my point is that that mental model is probably wrong. It's been a century long merry-go-round of lions and foxes trading places. Something different is going to start happening now.
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Yeah... US something new is starting to brew. A new kind of politically activated player representing a type of power not seen yet at any scale.
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