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> RIP democracy?

Well your first mistake is to believe democracy existed before AI, it just leaves you as a warrior for the status quo of the before times, which is what made tech feudalism inevitable in the first place.

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Right, real democracy has never been tried! I should have known.

Just look at the Israel case it's the perfect litmus test, the majority of the population in every so called western democracy is against the genocide, while their governments materially support it. Everything is like that, these so called democracies aren't representing people they represent corporate interests.

Well all Democracy is relative. In the US we have a representative republic or something, which doesn't put every military action to a vote, and sometimes our leaders have more information than us (I.E., are you sure it's a genocide? maybe those in leadership positions have a clearer picture than you do).

But I'm talking about something much less democratic that that even. AI is going to enable those in power to break away from democratic forms of government at escape velocity, if they want to. And it seems that they do.

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