alt Hacker News> An army of humans is obedient up to a point, but there is a limit to what orders you can give them.
Whatever that limit might be is genuinely terrifying, given how far obedient soldiers have gone and not hit such a limit many times over the past.
> An army of humans is obedient up to a point, but there is a limit to what orders you can give them.
Whatever that limit might be is genuinely terrifying, given how far obedient soldiers have gone and not hit such a limit many times over the past.
It's more that in the past widespread surveillance required a lot of people, many of whom will have a conscience which will end up disrupting your surveillance.
The movie Das Lieben der Anderen makes this point very cogently.
Nowadays you can run a huge surveillance program with far fewer people, all of whom can be conscience free.
Im not sure how the next stasi will crumble but it'll be a lot harder to wrest them from power with the tools they have at their fingertips.