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David Brin

Team Human

CHAPTER

The Three Formats That Occupied Our Ancestors

The blobby one is chaos the tightly controlled corporate one is feudalism each separate castle lord right and of course skynet is monarchy or totalitarianism. As vince surf points out none of these three can be given citizenshipNone of these three you can't give citizenship in the vote to the things that are puppets of microsoft and beijing so they'll just replicate and spawn another one. What you can get citizenship and rights to is a limited number of individuated reciprocally skeptical and competitive beings who have some kind of root in the real world and can be held accountable well why do we want this?

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