Suddenly it clicked and I realized what I was doing completely wrong. It was such a stupid mistake on my end, in retrospect:
I never mentioned anything about how public opinion causes regime change, tax noncompliance, military factors like popularity of wars and elite soldier/officer recruitment, and permanent cultural shifts like the 60s/70s that intergenerationally increase the risk of regime change/tax noncompliance/military popularity. Information warfare is a major factor driving government interest in AI.
I also didn’t mention anything about the power generated by steering elites vs. the masses, everything in this post was always about the masses unless stated otherwise, which it never was. And the masses always get steered, especially in democracies, and therefore is not interesting aside from people who care a ton about who wins elections. Whereas steering elites means steering people in AI safety, and all sorts of other places that are as distinct and elite relative to society as AI safety is.
Suddenly it clicked and I realized what I was doing completely wrong. It was such a stupid mistake on my end, in retrospect:
I never mentioned anything about how public opinion causes regime change, tax noncompliance, military factors like popularity of wars and elite soldier/officer recruitment, and permanent cultural shifts like the 60s/70s that intergenerationally increase the risk of regime change/tax noncompliance/military popularity. Information warfare is a major factor driving government interest in AI.
I also didn’t mention anything about the power generated by steering elites vs. the masses, everything in this post was always about the masses unless stated otherwise, which it never was. And the masses always get steered, especially in democracies, and therefore is not interesting aside from people who care a ton about who wins elections. Whereas steering elites means steering people in AI safety, and all sorts of other places that are as distinct and elite relative to society as AI safety is.