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Pfhortune | 4 months ago

> but eventually there's always a tipping point where things go upside down chaotic and I don't feel like we are that far away from it now.

The members of the billionaire class with any foresight are making a calculated bet that they will be in control of sufficient technological measures to suppress any kind of mass uprising by the populace. Look at all the resources going to Anduril and Palantir. Foucault's boomerang is on its way back towards the US populace right now.

That said, even that cadre far overestimates what technology can do. Adaptation is a fundamental pillar of the human condition.

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