The paperclip maximizer, as Nick Bostrom described it, is a thought experiment about blind optimization. It takes one goal, no matter how trivial, and relentlessly subordinates the world to it. The paperclip maximizer is not wicked for wickedness requires imagination. It has the focused simplicity of having only one end, and converts everything else into…
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Democracy is Slow Motion Murder-Suicide
You wanna know what democracy really is? It’s a murder-suicide with ballots instead of bullets. Just ask Justin Fairfax, former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Dude shot his wife then ate his own gun. Boom. Perfect metaphor. Because that’s exactly what your government is doing to you. Slowly, painfully, while smiling and calling it “progress.” They…