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Oh, it's far more than that. Virtual technodrugs, or addiction, is one arm of the emerging new order. The second arm is control: fine grained and invasive censorship, history rewriting and so on. The third arm is a much faster discovery of knowledge to empower the few. All three arms will derive their power from AI. It could be used for good, but the current state of things in our society don't favor such application of AI.

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Yep and the two big limitations are:

1) What content would be interesting to the mark

2) Generating the actual content for the mark to view

And AI can easily do both.

You have the GenX "Hack the planet" types to thank for that. They are the ones who helped these people build their panopticon of terror.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will go down as authors of a new kind of tyranny.

> GenX

> Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Both of those two were born in 1955, making them solidly Boomers. Don't blame us for their shenanigans.

Gen X bought the hype mostly uncritically and helped to justify and normalize the techniques that are now widespread today. Especially the end-of-history techno-utopianism of Clinton et al.

Boomers were too late to the game but rode the wave once it was normalized. Millenials recognized the ills and tried to criticize to undo the justification. Gen Z never understood the world any differently and so are little more than victims.

>Gen X, the ones who helped /these people/

>Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

You don't comprehend well.

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