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Potential outcomes as I see it: The conspiracy succeeds. Subscription service neofeudalism implemented rendered impossible to overthrow by Outside Context technologies. Mindlessly loyal killbots for a monopoly of force, ketracel white-backed hydraulic empires, human labor becoming economically...

Enough with the anthropomorphizing. An AI doesn't "want" anything except to accomplish whatever goal it's programmed to. It may very well be extremely dangerous to us if the programmer didn't care about our well-being, or to everyone if it misinterpreted its orders in such a manner as to cause...

In any case, the issue here isn't whether This Unit Has A Soul or not, but if it'll take everyone's jobs and protect its rich owners during the inevitable unemployment riots until everyone else starves to death.

But it's not the least bad option, insofar as it also requires a global dictatorship and massive downgrade of living standards/accessibility of technology to enforce and doesn't even necessarily solve the problem.

I don't necessarily think a Butlerian Jihad is a necessarily a good idea, just that it's a probable response to the majority of the human race being told their continued existence is economically unsustainable so pls die.

Jon Stokes explains the problem here, insofar as what it'd actually take to stop AI. Spoiler, a global dictatorship with unprecedented surveillance and banning civilian ownership of computers. And even that wouldn't necessarily work insofar as there'd be nothing stopping the dictatorship...

The problem remains that he's arguably right. Not about himself and his buddies being irreplaceable and worthy of survival while we aren't, but about human obsolesce. Our system as we know it cannot survive a significant percentage, much less the majority, of the population becoming...

I think it's less likely that America will give up on attacking any nation that dares try to escape its rigged banking system, more that it'll either become too weak to successfully do so or will get in a civilization-destroying nuclear war trying.

I'm less worried about a false flag by the security state, more about unintended escalation. The security state might be smart enough to just give up once Ukraine finishes losing and keep the money and civil rights they stole from us as a consolation prize, the Ukrainians are losing anyway so...

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/24/the-wef-is-a-menace-to-democracy/

Schizoposting time, Shaper/Machinist divide form Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix. Neoliberal oligarchy where theoretically anyone can make it but in practice few do vs racist übermensch who don't pretend that their society possesses fictitious upward social mobility but who also aren't company town...

If chickens can't handle it, we can't either. Spin the habitat or just accept it and don't return to the bottom of a gravity well where your skeleton will implode.

James Lileks has written a very humorous yet largely accurate article here for National Review.

https://www.newstreason.com/post/blackrock-vanguard-are-taking-over-us-centralized-food-production-to-control-food-supply

Apparently they realized people weren’t going to “be happy”. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/research-good-life-happy-meaningful/

Needing regular replacement is a feature not a bug, it means getting to bill everyone for new surgeries on a fairly regular basis and murder dissidents entirely legally by being a private company refusing service.

They wouldn't need to be. That's the whole point, there's no control per say, merely "if you don't make a profit, you can't afford replacement parts when your prosthetic vital organs wear out" and "prostheticorganscorp reserves the right to refuse to sell to you". Again, there wouldn't need to...

Solar CMEs are like dinosaur-killer asteroids, something which would absolutely fuck civilization on a scale not seen since the bronze age collapse, but since the corporatocracy hasn't personally encountered one and the requite countermeasures (rebuilding all essential electronic infrastructure...

The problem is, they have thought of this, here's their solution to the "free-willed human guards will turn on us if we create the dystopia we want" "problem". https://nypost.com/2021/10/18/robot-dogs-now-have-sniper-rifles/

some dude calling himself Spartacus has a neat explanation over on substack