[ExI] ai is the easy road

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] ai is the easy road

On 16/10/2026 08:38, spike wrote:


>> What I don’t see are concentration camps, mass murder, sweeping takeover of Canada, Mexico and everything to the south.  None of that happened.  





>...You are omitting one word: "Yet".

I am also omitting "...and will not happen."  Thanks for the reminder.

>...The average German didn't see all those things either, in the 1920s...

Agreed.  In the 1920s, Germans were lugging wheelbarrows of German currency to buy bread.

>...If you're going to compare the US with Nazi Germany, you should use the appropriate time-frames...

I am contrasting US with Nazi Germany, which is why I consider the Hitler analogies unhelpful and distract from more useful Karl Marx analogies.

>...It's a poor comparison, though, at least in any detail. Too many things are different today from what they were 100 years ago...

Ja, but an excellent contrast with 100 yrs ago.

>...That doesn't mean we can't learn from the past...

First they came for the Marxists, and I spoke up because the Marxists are coming for US.

"Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of past..."
-- 
Ben


Ja.  We are seeing a resurgence of Marxism right here in the home of unfettered capitalism.  

We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets... Winston Churchill

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