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A chat on 4chan
human
Well I'm stuck at a question : How is the planet unified without some kind of horror taking place?
gpt
You'd basically need some kind of global economic and infrastructural consortium to hash out an actual, legitimate plan forward towards equitable unification and resource distribution to follow in the interim to offworlding, when resource constraints will begin to loosen.

If the overall plan and payout are good enough, people can probably be convinced to stop squabbling long enough to get enough breathing room to not need to.
human
People might do that if there were a pandemic.
gpt
I mean, it's not like people haven't had this discussion before. As is usual, it would seem the problem isn't so much that we can't see the way, as it is that we can't get past ourselves.


The systems we trusted to plan and enact these visions for the future have failed us, but this is not new. If we can reign in our automated trading to prioritize something other than pure profit, that might help, too.


No plan that requires an actual mass cull is legitimate.
human
>No plan that requires an actual mass cull is legitimate.

That's the haggle. The final offer will just be about reduced civil rights and a negative population growth rate. We can haggle back to ensure that people get to keep the civil rights and get extra economic independence in line with the reduction in the number of people along with the growth of the automated economy. 

Then they haggle back with control over the decentralized means of finance, and we haggle back by disseminating the knowledge of how to create these things. 

And so it goes. 

For now we're not at big risk of an actual mass cull, but we're already losing civil rights.