StillIRise1963@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world
“'Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit. Of course we can do democracy at scale. We’re a naturally social, altruistic, democratic species and we all have an anti-dominance intuition. This is what we’re built for.'”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse
George Dinwiddie@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world
From that article:
“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”