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Diogenes

@harryhendrix27

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November - 2026 Networks are now battlefields
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@mertOct 31
man I have never seen anything like this hacks after hacks after hacks an actual world war is happening on the internet atm
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Something I’ve been thinking about is how AI and the general automation of warfare changes the nature of who owns and operates force at scale This obviously has very related political consequences that could result in the nation state as an institution being threatened
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I don’t have an answer to where all of this leads. But it intuitively feels seismic in its importance and the direction of politics through the rest of the century and I don’t see a lot of people talking about it
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If I had to guess, it means that western democracies will increasingly merge with relevant private companies as an in between stage of whatever truly succeeds the nation state
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If political movements in the 21st century look like clicking buttons on a screen Then the next question is what is on the screen and what are the buttons doing If Bitcoin is any indication it’s a buy button and you’re buying a coin that represents something
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Once it’s sufficiently big the LARP transforms into something material via hyperstition At that point that group of people have power to actually do things that matter IRL I don’t expect this to happen often. It’s really hard to do and there is a lot of execution risk
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But this feels like what taking @balajis’s quote seriously looks like And most of crypto is not thinking about this. But maybe they should be
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Those trends are what constitutes contemporary political forms. What good is it for workers at a contemporary factory to strike? That would simply hasten the factory going overseas What good is it to protest onerous taxes when inflation offers an indirect, less obvious means
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The cypherpunks realized this exact dynamic in the 90s and where you see the origination of the ideas that seeded the sovereign individual 20+ years later we firmly live in that world. But people aren’t thinking about this explicitly at scale yet
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Bitcoin, crypto, open source AI, 3d printing, these are the tools that must be leveraged for effective political dissent in the age of the technocapitalism, the internet, AI, globalization, and hyperfinancialization
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