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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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I guess the goal is to develop weapons so terrible that you "wouldn't wish them on your worst enemy", thus solving the problem forever.
They obviously don't understand what being petty is all about.
The Torment Nexus sounds like a great technical challenge.
Corporatist/Oligarchist supremacism is appealing to the supremacists, and then political control an obvious step, which brings control of military ambitions, which despite econopolitical systems serves establishment economic ambitions.
The simplicity mistake of the Terminator franchise vision of Skynet, was assuming "machine supremacy" as the bug that is risked by military supremacist motives. US privatization of military budget maximization means the path to Skynet is by design, and for Oligarchist/political supremacism. Making more trillionaires aligned with Israel/oligarchist power, ensures skynet will genocide/control all opponents to that supremacism.
That "skynet seems like a bad idea" doesn't matter in nazi empire democracy where mainstream candidates are either direct angry fascism vs. fascist ID verification to use computers laws unanimous devotion to ensure Skynet control. Skynet is only a bad idea for us.
A machine built to end war is always a machine built to continue war.
Thinking? I don't understand.