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To me we don't even consider the actual worse case scenario.

Is there any doubt 50 years from now all this will be on algorithmic autopilot for digital authoritarianism? All societies will have Chinese style monitoring but to an unimaginable degree even to people in China right now.

People outside IT were barely even using the internet 25 years ago. We are at the very start of this and already too far gone. You just have to enjoy these times and what we still have.



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