Posted on Jul 20, 2025
This is part 2 of what I wrote yesterday, Stuff on being sentient. I want to expand about what it means for authoritarian rulers to have pseudo–intelligences at their disposal.
It is fair to look at mafia organisations as a reiteration of feudalism; they control a territory, they have hierarchy, they rule a portion of the economy and a portion of the life of people like authoritarian governments.
It is known to Italian citizens that: for quite a while the cosa nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro, a top person in the list of criminals wanted by the Police, lived and fucked women, with no problems, close to the town where he was born. Nobody reported this to the Police. Humans in the local community were scared. The community of N humans was under the rule of M < N humans with the means to use violence.
Mafia organisations have a lot of money. Whenever robots embedding Nvidia’s personal computers implementing pseudo–intelligence will become available, the mafia will be able to afford them. Why send a hitman, when you can send a robot?