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   Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 22:28:47 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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   @fionafokus ... large, healthy, well-fed, well-educated population, which tends to demand a say in how things go.

   AI is a deliberate attempt to "hack" this, and establish an artificial resource in lieu of natural ones. The goal is the same, that you need fewer people to stay in power.

   AI - as it is shilled - is a strategic weapon for establishing tyrannies. And while not every tyranny must be fascist, every fascist is a tyrant.

   It's no stretch to state that AI is a fascist project.

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     Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 22:28:48 JST Jens Finkhäuser

     @fionafokus I tend to link this directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook, which is the popular science version of a 600-something pages academic work. It very clearly explains the mechanics by which tyrannies and democracies form, and it comes down to resources.

     If you have natural resources, you need a small percentage of the population more or less directly involved in extracting them to stay in power. If you don't, then you need to run a service economy.

     A service economy depends on a...

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     Rich Felker repeated this.