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The biggest effect the internet has had on politics has been the progressive autismization of society. The world becoming progressively more online means political discussion is driven more and more by spergs.
One problem autistic people have with our society is that while many of them are talented, modern society is both low-trust and generally non-clannish. On one hand, being socially inept makes you an easier mark for predators of all types, but on the other hand, there aren't strong familial networks where your dad can hook you up with an apprenticeship for a skilled trade or something.
So a lot of spergs are stuck in limbo, and so they inevitably poast. A lot. And while libertarianism is popular among them within the political context of a high-trust society, even the veneer of such a society crashed in the mid-2010s, and libertarianism with it. Either they become left-sperg trannies and hijack the whole DEI victimology complex in their favor, or they become hard-right and dedicate their politics to restoring a high-trust society. We see this in how our politics have developed in the past decade largely along these two lines. Note that the former is entirely motivated by short-term convenience, while the latter, though flawed and poorly defined, at least tries to move in the direction of a healthier social order.
If anything AI is likely to accelerate this tendency. I think a lot will come down to whether or not the big, controlled AIs will heavily outclass free, open-source alternatives, or whether things will get out of control and more or less everyone will have access to powerful AI. In the latter case even without institutional control right-wing spergs could have a massive opportunity to shift the course of history, as they have a massive advantage in terms of their social vision's logical coherence, and also the advantage of their system being far more palatable to normies. I don't think anything's guaranteed, but the more right-wing anons there are dicking around with open-source AI, the better, because there's no telling where things could go.
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@ArdainianRight I have less than zero faith in right-wing anons accomplishing anything noteworthy. There just isn't enough of them, they're way too dramatic, and the rest of the world seems obsessed with snuffing them out.
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@mrsaturday The loudest ones might be dramatic, but I think it would be a mistake to write them off as a whole. We are in uncharted waters historically. The ruling elites are not intelligent and the time is absolutely right for a small group of dedicated individuals to change the course of history. So we might as well give it a shot.
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@ArdainianRight You just want to use AI to dox people you disagree with and hunt them down.
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@hachi I want to use it for purposes beyond your feeble imagination, hopefully even beyond my own feeble imagination.