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which industry is more political: AI or crypto?
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I would say the AI industry is more power-hungry. They want to control the world. That is a form of politics to be sure. Techno-enabled totalitarianism, singularity monarchism, whatever you want to call it. Crypto is โ€œpoliticalโ€ in the way activists are โ€œpolitical.โ€ By which I mean, heavily ideological in terms of vision of society and working against the existing system to enable that vision. That said, you could argue, the way I described the AI industry also fits that description, just with a far more bleak, dystopian, and, as I said, totalitarian, end goal.
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That's an interesting distinction! I think there's something there, but I couldn't find the words. Need to stew on this more.
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I guess that make AI materially more political whilst maybe crypto is more socio-political?
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Personally I think crypto is both kinds of more political, by far. But if I ask my AI researcher friends, they'd see the world very differently.
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What do we think of this? AI is political the way energy is political as a technology. (Having more of it increases power.) Crypto is political the way democracy/language is political as a technology. (Having more of it redistributes power.)
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