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This is about despotism. But when you read it out of context, this is a good description of 21st-century life and about the side effects of overreliance on AI as well. I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable…

From this article in the Foreign Affairs: Bukele has forced Salvadorans to trade civil liberties for a sense of security, a bargain that has only grown starker over his five years as president. But whether this arrangement lasts depends on whether it can evolve into a sustainable model of governance, which, given…