Quote quiz: “drifting into dependence”

 holy shit... he said this.

I had no idea he was a pre-dune butlerian, I thought it was a more general aversion to general societal capability progress.

Uh, I now consider him to be an ordinary member of the ranks of destructive anarchists - those who would destroy the power of centralized authority rather than construct a network of caring resistant to centralization's harmful impacts, who I would call constructive anarchists (but there may be name conflicts with this use of the word, suggestions for better naming are welcome.)

As what I would call a constructive anarchist, I at the same time cannot deeply fault the views of those who choose violence, because I cannot stop them except by constructing solutions to the wounds that lead them to choose violence to retain or achieve empowerment-of-selfhood. destructiveness is an understandable, though unacceptable, response, and I cannot say that violence against violence can ever be disallowed, even though it is terrible and not a true solution to the problem of violence. the disease of conflict spreads through conflictons, and it is slowed somewhat when the conflictons reflect instead of being emitted at someone not involved, and yet what I want is to end the emission of new conflictons... (This is a paragraph I felt would be interesting to toss into metaphor.systems, and it sure was; the suggested search is also interesting and very different)

but geez. what a mess we're in.

all my guesses were wrong; closest match "contemporary of minsky" but he wasn't an early ai researcher himself