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A Boring Dystopia
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At some point I loved the kind of jokes based in his ideologies, about bioreactors and such.
And - the emotion behind this kind of thought is very important. It's not worse for anarchist and humanist thought than it is for the fascist kind.
Thought experiments are necessary. In the "good old times" such thought experiments as quoted here were normal for many sci-fi series.
The technologies (many of them) to make this are here. What would you do to find the least inhuman way they'll be used? Not doing anything is not an option - someone will use them to their ideology's advantage.
My idea at some point was that if we can't prevent surveillance and miniaturization and automation to the degree it's a failed endeavor to try to preserve privacy and security against those, then we should at least create a panopticon society, so that those Yarvin's "delegates" were as visible for the rest of us as the rest of us for them. Suppose the "nothing to hide" norm is here - and we are already losing against it, just silently. What can we do to avoid such a hellish and degenerate end of history as he describes?
It's a bit like with nukes, you can't (well, 50 years ago you couldn't) reasonably well protect against another's nuke, but you can balance it with your own.