• FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Right? Most of this stuff was already the case in 2012, so it barely even counts as a prediction.

      China’s lead in rare earth production doesn’t exactly come out of nowhere, nor does Haiti having a crisis of some sort or terrorists being called freedom fighters. And having AI do the targeting work in place of humans has been floating around as an idea since what, when The Forbin Project came out? 1970 or so?

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        2 months ago

        I feel bad for Haiti, they’ve been dealt a shit hand from the very beginning. But it’s been crisis after crisis since Spanish times.

        And for the tech stuff, Vannevar Bush’s 1947 Atlantic article gets you 95% of the way there.

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          For sure. It’s kind of fascinating, in a grim way, to contrast Haiti’s revolutionary course with the US, where basically every major power was cool with them a few years after their revolution.

          One wonders how history would be different if the nations of the world had spent centuries screwing the US with debt and propping up their worst leaders and left Haiti to do its own thing.