Bassoe neatly describes some of the sicker fantasies people have articulated for a post AI future. It's a wakeup call to reflect on just how nasty people can get.

It’s very interesting to me, and I think it might be a good topic for a political philosophy thesis, how we tend to think of politicians and public servants as fiduciaries in a limiting and dangerous sense.

I was talking with a public servant about a particular case in which there was an argument before the courts about whether or not some government contractor workers had been underpaid. There was a widespread perception that the government, in ferociously defending the case, had done the wrong…