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This is interesting in what it suggests for the future.
Romney is a conservative mormon, for example.
Beck's rant proposing that the political left is aligned with a nebulous big-government/big-business anti-technological movement may be mostly rhetorical hot air, but it did make me wonder . ..
Well before AGI is super-intelligent, weaker AGI and stronger narrow AI will likely lead to a hugely disruptive socio-economic disruption. This isn't being discussed much (outside of perhaps a lone blog and book or two).
Actually, this transition is already under way. The current slow-burn economic crisis is likely just the beginning. Crisis has a way of sparking political change. What will the masses do when most people have real economic value that is well below subsistence?
I have noticed it too: http://lesswrong.com/lw/cxi/peter_thiels_agi_discussion_in_his_startups_class/6s1k
Right at the cusp of change, humans will have tremendous ability to exercise choices about where this all ends up.
Often the choices of the masses in a crisis result in more crisis. I think it's wisest to completely avoid situations where the masses are making choices in crisis.