[ExI] quote of the day

[William Flynn Wallace]

I think that whatever the global megacorporations will obey is the
government we will have.  They will do the planning of the economy because
they 'are' the economy.  bill w

On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 6:12 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Hello Gadersd,
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Gadersd via extropy-chat wrote:
>
> > laws and governments remains to permit this option. I dread a future
> > in which centralization has the whole of humanity trapped within a
> > singular regime. I am not sure how AI will change the competitive
>
> I agree. This is one of my biggest fears as well. If we look at humanity
> at large, it does look as if there is a historical trend of ever greater
> consolidation and centralization. From families on the savannah, to
> tribes, to cities, to city states, to many countries and kingdoms and
> today to the 200:ish countries we have.
>
> If the trend continues, and once there is a world government in place,
> there will be no place to run in case of corruption or malfunctioning of
> the system.
>
> Makes one wonder if that in turn, will generate a future like in The
> Expanse or The moon is a harsh mistress, where we expand outwards away
> from the centralized tyrrany and if the colonies will once again break
> free, to then start the cycle of centralization again?
>
> Or will we end up in a utopian Star trek universe where all is good and
> everything is post scarcity, despite the centralized governing function?
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
>
>
> >
> >> On Oct 4, 2023, at 5:40 PM, efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> True. ;)
> >>
> >> On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Brent Allsop wrote:
> >>
> >>> And democracy is the first step, but you still suffer from politics.
> >>
> >> Well, on a more serious note, corona was the final straw that made me
> >> lose all hope in democracy as a sustainable long term way of running
> >> society. Haven't bothered to vote since then, and don't know if I ever
> >> will.
> >>
> >> When it comes to living life the way I want to live it, I am a proponent
> >> of the following techniques:
> >>
> >> 1. Voting with your feet (this is the most amount of voting I do). 2.
> Incorporating yourself. 3. Find good lawyers or read the law book yourself
> to use the system
> >> against itself, and to make it work for you.
> >>
> >> But voting... I think I'm done with that game.
> >>
> >> Best regards, Daniel
> >>
> >>
> >>> And of course the solution to that is giving every lost soul at the
> bottom a voice (no censoring) and building and tracking consensus
> >>> so things can scale.
> >>> Once you find enough  people that want the same thing you do, it will
> just happen.
> >>> Building and tracking consensus is the only hard part of getting
> anything done.
> >>> On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 2:17 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >>>      Or was it "the last politician strangled with the entrails of the
> last
> >>>      politician."? ;)
> >>>
> >>>      Best regards,
> >>>      Daniel
> >>>
> >>>      On Sun, 1 Oct 2023, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      > “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with
> the entrails of the last priest.” Diderot
> >>>      >
> >>>      > bill w
> >>>      >
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