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1. Kuyawa · 1790601609 · focus · HN ↗

   Manipulation through fear

   They need to control, regulate and tax AI so the first line of attack is the sheeple, so tell them the water is going to disappear and everybody will die a slow death of anguish, thirst and drought like never seen. Then evoke terminator apocalypses where drones go rogue and kill half the world. Then send their most likable emissaries with puppy eyes asking for compassion about our children's future

   Then they ask for your vote (oh democracy)

   In the end all they want is control and money, while keeping their competitors (china) in check, backed by the outrage of the weak majority

   Politics as usual, move along

   1. solenoid0937 · 1790602457 · focus · HN ↗

      I swear so many people on HN are developing psychosis.

      The much simpler solution is that they are building superintelligence, which they think can be used for great good (like curing most death and disease), but it is also a powerful capability that obviously needs to be regulated and is at least somewhat a matter of national security.

      But nooo! Surely they are building.... terminator bots!? JFC.

      1. watwut · 1790606799 · focus · HN ↗

         > like curing most death and disease

         Because people are giving them benefit of the doubt. They assume it is about something sane rather then "the goal is for some remaining humans to merge with tech as immortals and fly to the stars".

         1. solenoid0937 · 1790609156 · focus · HN ↗

            Sure, that's the goal too. No one is going to make you participate in that. Why does it bother you what people do with their own bodies?

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