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[–]Drewski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I was agreeing with his suggestions about decentralized solutions to bad government monopolies. Then I got to this section:

Protection: AI should be able to make great progress here. An intelligent home security system. Privacy in public is stupid. There’s only so many criminals, why aren’t we tracking them all in a public database. Why aren’t we tracking everyone in a public database? You do understand the government and large corporations are tracking you, why should only they have the privilege?

No thanks, I don't want to give up my privacy and track other people's private activities to stay "safe". I think decentralized protection strategies can work, in the form of neighborhood watches, mutual defense networks, private security, militias, etc but not having AI scrutinize our every move.

I’ve been in favor of an Elon monarchy for a while vs the existing system.

You went from decentralized alternatives to government monopolies to a tech overlord? Come on dude...

[–]pijk[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

He addresses that in the last line:

Monarchy is good, but even better: Can you build a high trust decentralized society?

He's basically saying that a decentralized society would be best but if that's not possible then letting a capable person like Musk take over the current system would be good enough.

[–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's like how Milton Friedman was against the Federal Reserve and thought it should be abolished, but if it wasn't going to be he had views and ideas on how to improve it.

[–]pijk[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Basically, yeah.

[–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and Plato basically said the same, no system is perfect but a monarchy is best.