1800s: State Monopoly on Violence; 2030s: State Monopoly on ASI
MillionInt · x · 2026-09-24
MillionInt offers a terse analogy: just as states built a monopoly on violence in the 1800s, they will build a monopoly on ASI by the 2030s — a one-line take on AI centralization and state power.
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