[gwern]

A democracy of whom? When AGI comes and the AIs are as smart or smarter than you, what's going to keep you enfranchised? Huang's suggestion is that it will be your ability to... type faster than a computer can. (Good luck with that.)

[HDThoreaun]

The 400 million guns owned by the people of this country. Humans will not go quietly into the night. They might lose some sense of purpose as they work less, but they will never accept a government that is not fundamentally based on humanism and they will never accept reduction in quality of life as GDP expands.