Palmer Luckey
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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On the other hand, if you look at a lot of African nations, even a lot of Middle Eastern nations, you have a huge mismatch between what the political class wants and what the everyman wants.
And so I think a better axis is actually more like democratic versus autocratic technologies in that there are a lot of technologies that are much more useful for controlling your own population than for preserving their rights.
against hostile actors.
There's a lot of countries whose military effectively is an internal peacekeeping force to crush dissent.
That's actually what it's for.
And there's a lot of tools made by companies like SenseTime in China that are fundamentally, they are not useful for going to other countries and preserving our rights.
They're not useful for defending yourself from an invader.
They are only useful for controlling people in your nation.
This is one of the reasons that China is exporting these technologies in the same way that the Soviet Union exported AK-47s, which you could say are on this distributed and offensive side if you were to look at it that way.
But the reason they were actually doing that is they wanted to arm nations with the tools that they needed to keep their civilian population in check and keep them in power.
And they wanted to threaten them and say, hey, if you ever get out of line, we're going to stop providing you with these arms and systems you need.
And then you're going to immediately get a violent revolution and you're probably going to get killed.
It was a great motivation for people to stay stuck to the Soviet Union.
This idea that we are the thing that allows you to keep your people in check.
And without us, that is over.
China's pursuing a similar strategy.
They're going to African nations and saying, hey, we're going to help
build out this infrastructure in your ports, on your roads, in your police force, in your military.
We're gonna build AI camera systems that track dissidents for you, that track where they're shopping, where they're going, where they're riding trains.
We're gonna allow you to monitor all their communications on the telecommunications side.
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