like the United States confronting Donald Trump and his quite likely return in November 2024, Belarus must throw off dictator Lukashenko first in order to achieve open democracy. Akin to internet packets and immunizable pandemics, superpredators and publics alike are presently all connected globally, and we must collaborate across the imposed borders—or else, worldwide overt fascism.
superpredators never survive. basically, we are not collaborating. centralisation of communication portals, during the nonregulation of auotmated attention algorithms in the covid pandemic, has ensured that we are neither communicating nor collaborating freely. i'm guessing that people form scattered pockets that generally have channels to AI surveillence. --- the dictator efforts are behaving similar to those runaway goal processes that AI alignment people are worried about, and we can see the impact of that heavily on even this list. if all your effort is focused on making paperclips, garnering people's attention, or taking political power in a country, each of those effort processes is disregarding everything else there is in reality. this means it makes itself loud and known. it also means the processes get in each others' way, being much less efficient than things that work together for goals everybody would agree on. [they delay this with extremes of money, computation, and human labor]