Those “very real, very powerful security regimes around the world” are surprisingly inept at handling a few million people trying to migrate to other countries, and similarly inept at handling the crime waves and the political fallout generated by it.
And if you underestimate how much a threat could a mere “computer” be, read the “Friendship is Optimal” stories.
I’ve read the sequences on friendliness here and find them completely unconvincing with lack of evidence and a one-sided view the problem. I’m not about to start generalizing from fictional evidence.
I’m not sure I agree with the assessment of the examples that you give. There are billions of people who would like to live in first world countries but don’t. I think immigration controls have a particularly effective if there’s only a few million people crossing borders illegally in a world of 7 billion. And most of the immigration issues being faced by the world today such as Syrian refugees are about asylum-seekers who are in fact being permitted just in larger numbers than secondary systems were designed to support. Also the failure modes are different. If you let the wrong person in, what happens? Statistically speaking, nothing of great consequence.
Crime waves? We are currently at one of the lowest periods of violence per capita. I think the powers that be have been doing quite a good job actually.
Those “very real, very powerful security regimes around the world” are surprisingly inept at handling a few million people trying to migrate to other countries, and similarly inept at handling the crime waves and the political fallout generated by it.
And if you underestimate how much a threat could a mere “computer” be, read the “Friendship is Optimal” stories.
I’ve read the sequences on friendliness here and find them completely unconvincing with lack of evidence and a one-sided view the problem. I’m not about to start generalizing from fictional evidence.
I’m not sure I agree with the assessment of the examples that you give. There are billions of people who would like to live in first world countries but don’t. I think immigration controls have a particularly effective if there’s only a few million people crossing borders illegally in a world of 7 billion. And most of the immigration issues being faced by the world today such as Syrian refugees are about asylum-seekers who are in fact being permitted just in larger numbers than secondary systems were designed to support. Also the failure modes are different. If you let the wrong person in, what happens? Statistically speaking, nothing of great consequence.
Crime waves? We are currently at one of the lowest periods of violence per capita. I think the powers that be have been doing quite a good job actually.