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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 12 November 2014 09:24:01PM 0 points [-]

Well, that's quite a long list. To pick out a few of your examples:

multinational corps

My impression is that one of the main arguments against corporations is corporate lobbying. Under an examination-based system, there is no campaign funding which should go a long way to removing this problem. And the 'multi-national' bit is an incentive against wars.

incredibly deadly weapons

You can kill a lot of people with machetes.

learning to coordinate larger and larger organizations (see for example how China learned to crowd-source censoring and online propaganda on the cheap)

Large scale co-ordination is good! People like Gwern argue that large-scale cooperation to suppress harmful technologies is mankind's best hope of survival.

Big-data and facial recognition applied to CCTV cameras is understandably something of concern. OTOH, some of the bitcoin people think that blockchain technologies will bring down governments.