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by prox 1151 days ago
As I mentioned in a recent comment:

The balance between privacy and the authority is just that. We outsourced the rule of law to the state in order to have a fair and just society. Ipso facto the government should be fair and just to have the right to invade some amount of privacy in order to keep a society free, fair and just.

That’s why the judicial branch exist: to see if what the government (or anyone) did was playing by the rules. Which brings us back to politics being a danger to a society if people vote in unjust or unfair people.

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It's going to be awfully weird to see who the embodied AGI members of society vote for and what dynamics they inject into politics.