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    I mean, AI/robots might. If your police force is just kill bots, paid by electricity gathered free from the sun, what’s stopping you from enslaving everyone you know?

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      Lenin didn’t think about that. He liked his own leadership and “inevitable forces of history” which meant that everything will be good. Then he saw how things work and instituted NEP. Then he died of syphilis.

      Norbert Wiener, though, thought about that, he wrote in “Cybernetics” a few obvious conclusions and descriptions of the world of the future, and how we need a cybernetic democracy (that’d be directly voting on many things every day, something that was considered impractical 100 years ago, but is more practical now than normal vote then, yet nobody’s doing it), only he didn’t describe how it’ll be a cybernetic democracy and not a cybernetic tyranny, probably something easy and obvious, not worth mentioning, that’s sarcasm.

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    i wish it wasn’t such a slow process: i don’t want to be doomed to be forced to struggle to keep a roof over my head; food on the table; and clothes on my back for the rest of my life while i can do nothing but wait and watch while all my supportive actions are intentionally sidelined by the overwhelming american majority.