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Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by originalcopying on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:52PM (#35154472)
I've recently started to believe that known current legitimate governments are (and have always been) the legacy of people in history doing rackets like these in the now historical past.
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Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by webmaven on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:47PM (#35160277)
They sure are. Are you familiar with "War is a Racket"[0][1] by Major-General Smedley Butler[2]?:

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

[1] https://books.google.co.il/books/about/War_is_a_Racket.html?...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

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