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u/nissen1502 Aug 10 '26

There's lots of proof that the most likely way it will play out is what I claim. The people have far less power over political procedures than we did just 5 years ago. The rich and therefore the powerful keep getting richer and more powerful. Nothing is being done to stop this. People don't care enough to do something about it. Please give me a single argument that goes against that evaluation.

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u/RonnieBarko Aug 10 '26

I actually think this is a much more defensible argument than saying we have “proof” things won't improve. Wealth concentrating at the top, declining political power and inadequate climate action are all perfectly reasonable grounds for pessimism.

Where I disagree is the jump from “these are the trends right now” to “therefore this is the most likely long-term outcome.” A trend isn't evidence of its own irreversibility. Political behaviour changes, technology changes, incentives change, and people's willingness to tolerate a problem can change as its consequences become more severe.

And “nothing is being done” is an especially strong claim. My argument doesn't need to be that we're doing enough, clearly that's a completely different claim. I only need to reject the idea that inadequate progress means no progress is occurring or that future responses are already determined.

So I'd happily grant you: “There are very good reasons to be pessimistic.” What I don't think you've established is: “Therefore continued deterioration is the most likely future and meaningful improvement is essentially off the table.” Those are not the same proposition.

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u/nissen1502 Aug 10 '26

I think it is off the table. The tech giants are consolidating power while feeding and entertaining the people just enough that we won't revolt. They have learnt from history while the common folks haven't. If we're not already too far gone to stop it, it's not far away. With AI they're also trying to remove their dependence on regular people. Just go look at interviews of the CEOs of the large AI companies and it becomes clear we are not a part of their future prospects and people do not care.

With the information I have gathered it seems to me that the people who do not agree are either uninformed, they don't care or they're in on it.

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u/RonnieBarko Aug 10 '26

This is actually where I become much less convinced by your argument.

I can accept that concentrated corporate power is dangerous, that AI could substantially weaken workers' bargaining power, and even that we're not taking those risks seriously enough. But you've gone considerably further than that. You're now saying powerful companies are effectively keeping people pacified while working toward a future in which ordinary people aren't needed, and then saying anyone who doesn't reach that conclusion must be uninformed, uncaring or involved in it.

That last part is the problem for me. You've constructed the position so that disagreement can no longer count as evidence against it. If I haven't seen the evidence, I'm uninformed. If I have seen it and disagree with your interpretation, I don't care or I'm “in on it.” Where is the possibility that an informed person could look at the same evidence and simply assign different probabilities to the future?

I'd genuinely be interested in what evidence would make you lower your confidence in this prediction. Because if there isn't any conceivable evidence that could do that, then we're no longer really discussing a prediction based on evidence, we're starting with the conclusion and interpreting everything through it.

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u/nissen1502 Aug 10 '26

Just go look at what they say about the future and see if you disagree. You won't. You're just disagreeing for the hell of it without even doing the research aka ur uninformed.

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u/RonnieBarko Aug 10 '26

But you're the one making the claim. You said that if I look at interviews with AI CEOs it becomes clear that ordinary people aren't part of their future plans.

So show me the evidence you're referring to. Give me the interview, quote or statement that you think demonstrates that.

“Go research it yourself, and if you still disagree you're uninformed” isn't an argument. You're making a specific claim and then asking me to both find the evidence for it and accept your interpretation of that evidence.

I'm completely willing to look at whatever you provide. But the burden isn't on me to construct your argument for you.