Quote from: Knarf on May 19, 2024, 04:36 PMWhat if democratization emerges through an erosion of the inequality gap? Say that Governments loose their oligarchy status, while the authority administered by filthy lucre begins to transform itself into cooperation by intelligent design? People won't be deciding man's fate, computers will.
Recommendations from AI are like the recommendations from Macron's panel of J6Ps. They won't be implemented if they don't serve the interest of the oligarchy. The fact the recommendation are spit ou by a smart supercomputer instead of average people or experts doesn't give them any more poltical power.
I don't see how Goobermints will lose their oligarchical power in favor of AI. How does AI foster cooperation? If AI came up with a solution that demonstrated the Oligarchs would get richer if they cooperated, they might follow that prescription, but it's an oxymoron. That would just make the division between classes even wider. Any solution that will help J6P is going to negatively affect the wealth and power of the elite. With a shrinking pie, the only way to make small slices larger is by making large slices smaller. Oligarchs won't implement any recommendation by AI that they get smaller slices.
QuoteI still think that is where the battle is. In the cloud. Who controls the cloud, controls the world. Which pretty much means we are absolutely screwed, with absolutely nothing we can do about it.!! :)
That's a reasonable conclusion.
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