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> but that the downside isn't worth it.

This is also my argument against militarization and armed revolution as a strategy of establishing anarchist or communist society. The downsides are illustrated and argued against in "The Anarchist Cookbook," a rewrite of the original by Keith McHenry. So, I'm interested in what you think the downsides may be here, since I'm not immediately able to think of any - at least not any caused by me as an individual activist.

It does seem that AI was used effectively recently in the defeat of Bolsanaro's son in Brazil, which I use as evidence for. I'm at this moment looking more into that when I really should be working, heh. Thanks to user solyin, sibling to you.

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Well, we can start by pointing out that every widely available model is either directly funds or bolsters authoritarians of the worst kind.

Then we can move to the damage it does to your mental abilities.

We can continue to the ongoing effect on society, the damage to the environment, and so on.

And we can finish with extrapolating on the abilities of the models, and the dystopia that having full AGI would be. Especially if that AGI is built by the current leaders.

I think you're aware of the downsides, but you don't want to put down your precious.

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