I’m just talking of taking one evil crazy dictator out of the mix, and the consequences of his existence. Most of the real dire things of the twentieth century are due to Hitler, or an outgrowth of the communism he caused to become such a potent force.
Two sources to enlighten this conversation:
1) http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills --12 million non-jew dissenters also murdered by the nazi regime. Also,
2) http://peikoff.com/lr/home.htm --”The Ominous Parallels” by Leonard Peikoff—the Weimar was already philosophically and legally decayed. When you eliminate jury trials and robust freedom of speech, you get a tyrannical (and possibly democidal) regime
The prospect of an existential or near-existential risk from a Singularity-delaying/preventing tyranny is the primary reason to be a rationalist—if you’re enough of one to allocate your resources toward a viable strategy of preventing democide.
I’m just talking of taking one evil crazy dictator out of the mix, and the consequences of his existence. Most of the real dire things of the twentieth century are due to Hitler, or an outgrowth of the communism he caused to become such a potent force.
Two sources to enlighten this conversation: 1) http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills --12 million non-jew dissenters also murdered by the nazi regime. Also, 2) http://peikoff.com/lr/home.htm --”The Ominous Parallels” by Leonard Peikoff—the Weimar was already philosophically and legally decayed. When you eliminate jury trials and robust freedom of speech, you get a tyrannical (and possibly democidal) regime The prospect of an existential or near-existential risk from a Singularity-delaying/preventing tyranny is the primary reason to be a rationalist—if you’re enough of one to allocate your resources toward a viable strategy of preventing democide.
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