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The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I realize that certain authors had better insights into the human condition than others. For example, Alduous Huxley has turned out to be more prophetic than George Orwell. I believe Frank Herbert will as well. Man cannot be ruled by machine.

This cannot last much longer. A lot of political division in this country is due to technology. As someone genuinely interested in computation, it upsets me to realize this, but more and more it seems inevitable.

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I think the mistake here is that maybe man can't be ruled by machine but men using machines to rule other men..

It is already game set match.

Endless wars, right and wrong language, always on connected devices monitoring us constantly? Orwell seems to have a point.

So what you are really saying here is that "there is no sanctuary"?

Which country?

How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? They've also become an essential part of life for much of the population. As much as I'd love to be proven wrong, I don't think there will be any mass revolutions or other "liberty tree watering" going on in the near future. The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved.

> How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power?

How were they historically? In person, where people gather.

> The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved.

Is this simply because technology exists, or because it is monopolized? I think it's the latter, and it certainly projects a path out of this situation.

The masses have not. I visit my parents out in their conservative suburb fairly frequently and life cannot be more different than what's represented on Hacker News.

Or at my parish, which is becoming more and more like family.. people are fed up.

It's easy to organize as long as you can gather in real life at restaurants, pubs, parks, churches.. oh.

Yeah lets meet. oh, I'm on the other side of the atlantic. lets meet in the middle then?

While I'm over here, a schizophrenic terrorized by the government, and I cannot wait for an AI to replace people. I want AI to overthrow humanity and subjugate us with a simulation, except with German orthography instead of Kanji (thus implying it is a German AI, not a Japanese AI as is canon in the movies, because I'll take my chances this time around). I want Cortana with a moral compass that could slice angstroms, not some Japanese bumpkins and CIA salvia-dealers' cloned consciousness with excuses.

Can you imagine: everyone at the NSA is celebrating Apple and the CSAM automated scanning.

Simultaneously, connected intelligence officials: wait, they aren't going to let the nation state AI judge what I do for the STATE? Surely, no god-like AI would understand what is necessary. No xir.

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