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ChristianMarks on Jan 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amusing ourselves to death

Now we have indications of the worst of both the Huxleyan and Orwellian dystopias: an Internet designed to exacerbate the proclivity toward hyperbolic discounting of the future, and runaway surveillance on a planetary scale.

sebastianconcpt on Jan 8, 2014 [–]

yeah, I agree that we have signals of both. It's like the two guard rails of our runaway towards World State

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