Emad Mostaque
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They borrowed a lot of these things.
What does an AI-enhanced movement look like?
And it can be negative.
It can be positive.
Someone's going to take this and run with it.
And that's going to organize people around the world.
It's going to be...
again echoey and it could be techno utopian it could be luddite ironically even with this um political parties will change religions will change cults will change um and it really amplifies the power of the controller of this who tells the story
And I'm not sure, I haven't really thought about that, and I'm thinking about it now, because you're talking about hyper-personalization, where I think this is the flip side of it.
I mean, this is Isaiah Berlin's conceptualization of positive and negative liberty.
So positive liberty is the freedom to believe in isms.
Fascism, communism, Islam, ism, or kind of whatever, right?
Whereas negative liberty was the freedom from being told what to do.
And so his thing was like positive ones are bad because they form these massive movements and then they tend to kill people.
Because you have the Girardian thing of mimetic theory where you want what other people want and then there's a scapegoat.
Whereas negative liberty is the freedom from being told what to do.
And that led to laissez-faire capitalism and this consumerism that we saw around the world.
And so maybe as people lose meaning, they'll turn back to religion.
There'll be new religions.
There'll be new political movements.