Free speech is open borders for ideology. - Balaji Srinivasan

If a country stay smalls to remain true to its roots, it eventually gets absorbed by an empire.

Conversely, if a country plays for empire, and truly achieves world domination, it absorbs so many that its subjects eventually outnumber the imperial core. And thus the empire, too, loses touch with its roots.

Stay small and get conquered.
Get big and get diluted.

Here’s a reframe.
AI doesn’t take your job.
AI allows you to do any job.
So a coder can now make films.
And a filmmaker can now write code.
It allows a non-specialist to get started.
But a specialist will be needed for polish.

The Industrial Revolution improved everyone’s life, in the long run.

But in the medium run, it caused the rise of communism, the murder of capitalists, and the advent of world war. Technological advance caused political chaos.

Then again, would you prefer no electricity?