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Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

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211 points lexandstuff | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 21:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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jandrewrogers ◴[06 Jul 25 03:08 UTC] No.44477503[source]▶
A critical flaw in arguments like this is the embedded assumption that the creation of democratic policy is outside the system in some sense. The existence of AGI has the implication that it can effectively turn most people into sock puppets at scale without them realizing they are sock puppets.

Do you think, in this hypothesized environment, that “democratic policy” will be the organic will of the people? It assumes much more agency on the part of people than will actually exist, and possibly more than even exists now.

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foxglacier ◴[06 Jul 25 07:06 UTC] No.44478493[source]▶
Normal human communication already does that. Do you really think almost any of the people who share their political opinions came up with them by being rational and working it out from information? Of course not. They just copied what they were told to believe. Almost nobody applies critical thought to politics, it's just "I believe something so I'm right and everybody else is stupid/evil".
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1. NitpickLawyer ◴[06 Jul 25 08:03 UTC] No.44478742[source]▶
> Almost nobody applies critical thought to politics

Not only that, but they actively stop applying critical thinking when the same problem is framed in a political way. And yes it's both sides, and yes the "more educated" the people are, the worse their results are (i.e. almost a complete reversal from framing the same problem as skin care products vs. gun control). Recent paper on this, also covered and somewhat replicated by popular youtubers.