Things on a parallel track are accelerating with absurd momentum. AI has dramatically overshot human performance. It can hear you now. It can respond to you now. It can see you now. And it knows you now. The only thing these functions can't do, is talk to one another. 

Why am I bringing this up when we're watching the latest economic empire see its fall? Because these two parallel events are the grandparents of what will emerge as the new state. For all recorded human history, our ability to self-govern has been lead by a subset of a mixed representation of ourselves.

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