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by pixl97 1113 days ago
> Such a society would be insane, could not survive, could not face its problems

This sounds like the message Yuval Noah Harari currently has about AI, at least in the more short term. And that is democracy is not possible in an environment where unswayable AI agents exist in vast numbers and become a time sink for humans to argue at. This would lead to autocracy as people began to panic because institutions began to fail they and look for strong leaders. Some would say that ML algorithms are already leading us on this path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari