18 August 2026 - anthropocracy

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The Enlightenment is Over

Why are so many against AI? Because we humans are doing an appalling job of running the world, so by the rules of sympathetic magic, everything associated with wealth and power must be bad. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater! Protesters should be chanting "Down with the anthropocracy!"

clue:

"Anthropocracy" has been used to mean "government for people," but by derivation it should obviously mean "government by people."

take oh take this clue away

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