There are very large portions of societies that believe class systems are the way it should be, even if they aren't on the top, as long as they have someone below them.
Sweet summer child, the purpose of government is a monopoly on forcing things down people's throats. When people lose control of their government that monopoly doesn't go away, especially when the Don running the show has blackmail on every influential person in society taken from a decades long intelligence operation by offing it's leader.
A vast number of people in positions of responsibility right know have their life at the mercy of the redaction pen and are ultimately going to do whatever it takes to keep that pen out of the "wrong hands"
No. Hope is not a strategy. Too much of the techno optimist future narratives we use to coat over the increasingly screaming cognitive dissonance as we see what keeps us civil, from each other's throats, decline, smothered by the rise of the broligarchy.
What's happening here is not about AI. It's a loyalty test, administered to every major actor in the economy, the more influential, the more ruthless and earlier.
Your core values, in exchange for taxpayer money access and loyalty to the Don, an offer few can refuse.
And the choice will come for everyone. It's a distillation attack to filter the
- DEI for Grants
- Your officer's oath to not kill civilians by word of your leader for continued career
- AI Safety for non blacklisting
- Your immigirant employee's location for us not harassing your offices in person
- Your trans neighbour shipped to a reeducation camp and gender reassignment for the safety of your family.
Becoming complicit is the ultimate loyalty
So stop hope. Stop asking. Demand, Force, Resist.
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Do not go gentle into that long night,
The righteous should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
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The part where this will be fun is where the VCs lobby the US government, via peace board donation or golden iphones, to ban Chinese Open Source AI because otherwise they won't ever make their money back.
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