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Wet Tyrant Contest feat. Patrick Wyman
TRASHFUTURE
The Psychological Mania of Elites
The fall of Rome was a series of logistical infrastructural things. We're not just talking about that kind of collapse, we're zeroing in on what you might call governing elites. That's MPs, ministers, wonks, mandarins, think tankers and opposition politicians. The belief in the power of technology to perform magic unaided by people is a common core belief across UK politics. If you make the health service not work, you can get it to the point where an AI could do it as well.
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