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glass_superman t1_j249j7b wrote

Reply to comment by bildramer in How the concept: Banality of evil developed by Hanna Arendt can be applied to AI Ethics in order to understand the unintentional behaviour of machines that are intelligent but not conscious. by AndreasRaaskov

Pol Por rules no one, he's dead.

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ting_bu_dong t1_j24djqb wrote

They said that people like him exist. The large majority of people like him are ruling no one, obviously.

Whether any current leaders/rulers/however-you-want-to-call-them are like Pol Pot is debatable... But, no, not so much.

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glass_superman t1_j24nq3v wrote

Koch Bros are not as deeply depraved as a fascist leader but they have a much wider breadth of influence. They are more dangerous than Pol Pot because what they lack in depth, they more than make up for in breadth.

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