[FRIAM] bah!

[Marcus Daniels]

I'm suggesting that if the whitelash voters opted to use hypothetical technologies that improved their information processing abilities (neural lace, gene therapy, advanced drugs), they would come to realize they were just pawns in a cynical game of some boring oligarchs and they'd move on to other things.  They'd update their priors based on evidence.  

Beyond that, there is the problem of people wanting to keep riches for themselves.   As an arms dealer, one could offer a low price per unit to the masses and a high price to the elite and come out smiling.

Marcus

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> < What makes you think the "Whitelash" contingent won't be early 
> adopters (too)? >
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> I hope they will.   Give them the ability to participate in a more sophisticated economy.
I would like to think (as I think you imply) that a more sophisticated "economy" or "ecology" or ??? would resolve the apparent/percieved/real differences that have "the rest of us" finding them scary as hell... 
just as *they* are (as often implied and reported) Skeered of Muslims (or at least the extremists) and other not-White not-Xtian peoples because *THEY* are percieved (by them) to be either fundamentally flawed (Cain vs Abel nonsense, Original Sin?... ???) or not living in a _sophisticated enough_ economy/ecology...

too many of my Trumpian friends are NOT coming from a position of
*simple* ignorance or oversimplification...  I don't know if I can attribute their misperceptions to be as simple as a lack of sophistication?

My Very Good Science Mind (channeling Trump here) has me believing that an "arms race" is both inevitable and (therefore) "good" for global evolution of complexity/life/??? but my (possibly flawed) Heart has me cringing at the thought of an accelerating arms race.

I suppose a thread titled "bah!" can't be bent beyond the pale really...  though I'm sure I've helped to bend the others a bit much of late.

- Steve
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