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>dystopia >utopia

why the lack of nuance?

It could, of course, become anything in between - slightly better, slightly worse, no change, anywhere on the spectrum.

But I, like a great many people both on this website and worldwide, spend most of my working life entering data into a computer (and reading it out of a monitor), and derive a great deal of utility from data entered into a computer, so it's reasonable to assume that it will result in significant changes.

you're right, and the link you shared was moving.. personally I think things will move much faster than we think, and much sooner than in the mmacevedo story

Exactly. There is no such thing as dystopia or utopia every government has shades of both.

Stalin's trains ran on time. It was still an authoritarian dystopia. The thing about dystopian qualities is that they tend to nullify the meaning of any potentially otherwise good things.

It was not a dystopia. It had dystopian qualities but millions of peoples lives were better under Stalin then they had been under the Imperators. That’s the thing, even the worst nations we know of are not dystopias as dystopia is the opposite of utopia neither of which are attainable in the real world.

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