2026-10-11 14:44 UTC
@bazkie@beige.party @nixCraft@mastodon.social Correct, you understand how law has always worked. We don't have democracy because somebody thought it was fair or just for people to rule themselves. We have democracy because in the past, people got angry, picked up rifles and shot enough authoritarians (and their submissives!) for the rest of them to understand the group with more people has more firepower and tends to win.
So now we periodically check which group has more people with ballots instead of bullets.
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@martin_t@mastodon.social 2026-10-11 14:55
@bazkie@beige.party @nixCraft@mastodon.social This is BTW why "AI" and especially aAI is the most dangerous tech in the world. With autonomous drones and robots, democracy stops being the local optimum. And once we slide (are pushed off) into a new more stable state (pun not intended), we don't have the (fire)power to get out of it. The "permanent disempowerment" people keep talking about won't be a "rogue" model, it'll be doing exactly what told by the rich and connected.
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@chemaunch@mastodon.social 2026-10-11 15:02
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