
James Poulos - Tech Doomerism & Superhumanism
Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta
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Is It Going to Be More Injurious to the Pride of the Oppressed?
Tyranny is bad, not just because it's bad, but because it's stable. At a certain point, you can beat up on a people for a long time and eventually they go: "I'd rather try to just kill the guy than endure this indignity any longer" People who recognize tatte tat, they ultimately do have human masters, but they're just, like, hiding behind a wall of machine enforcers. We are corrupted and jaded enough already to know that it's not that easy. And s joe pants in the matrix, eating the juicy steak and knowing that it was not real, but choosing it anyway.
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