RE: https://mastodon.social/@searls/116115186760077991

I'm afraid that Justin is onto something here. If these AI things ever work - and surely someday they will - they are going to be more disruptive than anything in our lifetimes.

@RonJeffries The history of the revolutionary 19th century is relevant. “The revolutions were shaped by a wide variety of causes, which were linked to the short- and long-term socioeconomic transformations brought about by industrialization and the political legacy of the French Revolution.”

Those revolutions all failed, even when people *had* a political legacy to look back to and were under a far weaker surveillance state. I suspect the oligarchs agree w/ Justin, and think they’re safe.

@marick are we then, fucked in your view?

@RonJeffries I have no idea.

I wish I did. Even if wrong, certainty is comfortable.