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by tmpz22 437 days ago
If I were an AI advocate I'd push the environmental angle to distract from IP and other (IMO bigger and immediate concerns) like DOGE using AI to audit government agencies and messages, or AI generated discourse driving every modern social platform.

I think the biggest mistake liberals make (I am one) is that they expect disinformation to come against their beliefs when the most power disinformation comes bundled with their beliefs in the form of misdirection, exaggeration, or other subterfuge.

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The biggest mistake liberals have made is thinking leaving the markets to their own devices wouldn't lead to an accumulation of wealth so egregious that the nation collapses into fascism as the wealthy use their power to dismantle the rule of law.
You imagine that this is a mistake, but it wouldn't be the first time that liberals went hand-in-hand with fascism to protect their capital.
The mistake is not understanding the inevitability.
How is that a mistake? Isn't that the exact purpose of propaganda?