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Looked through the AI 2040 Plan A thing. It is bad, but I don’t think it is disingenuous. So I’m willing to give them the benefit of doubt and assume sincerity. I think the badness comes from this group being immersed in a subculture that has metabolized regional subcultural success and local influence into unwarranted intellectual confidence in its ideas. The result is a weird mix of a reasonable-toned and reassuring sounding document that appears to cover all the bases and address all obvious concerns and questions, and a document with a deep commitment to proselytizing a particular ideological-theological frame by exclusively and uncritically using its terms of reference. Smuggled in throughout are several motivated speculations. The result is a document that is uniquely and dangerously insular, unimaginative, and blind to all the uncertainties in the picture and the things nobody knows.
It reads like a mashup of a 101 history of nuclear treaties and a brochure for invitees to the Council of Trent.
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