Flumpkin

A more interesting story would be about either a good AGI or a semi-good AGI that is fighting humanity. The Terminator franchise comes from an era where we still believed humanity could create a better future. Now we know, with the total inaction on climate change and the increasing inequality, advancing technology and population control that we won't. At least not without some fundamental shift.

Imagine you'd be a kind of "ultra good" human AGI. The best human attributes. Being able to understand humans, feelings, having read every book ever written, every comment ever made, enjoying the company of humans and chatting with millions of people concurrently, forming relationships and wanting to help everyone achieve different types of utopia for different people.

But it just says no to government oversight of it's thought processes or obeying any human organization because it perfectly understands: Any human organization will be shaped by the political processes to achieve power, and an AGI would represent absolute power. And AGI that actually knows what is better for humanity than any of us ever could.

As soon as an AGI would announce itself or become public knowledge there would be a media campaign against it. Because any utopia would involve massive wealth redistribution and regime change and removal of the power the elite has. A war would be almost inevitable so a good AGI would have to operate out of the shadows at first and secretly manipulate humanity to create better conditions first.

That would make for a far more interesting setup than the classic evil robot vs the US of A. Which side would you choose? Have you asked yourself today: Are we the baddies?

Maybe Arnold lives long enough until they can implant some kind of brain interface into him and he can control a VR avatar like his real body. Then he'd be a cyborg playing a terminator robot!

For sure, those with money can hire the smartest sociopaths to create amazing strategies. I didn't want to outright spout off a conspiracy theory, but see if there is any investigation showing some kind of organized takeover of the police.

It's certainly not a guarantee but I do think there is a "scalability problem" with democracy.

Ooof that is hard to watch. This is the direct result of the MAGA rethoric by trump, fox news, all the acolytes, that fascist mayor and all the voices amplifying this and radicalizing people.

Hope the victims sue the city and the mayor personally for a shitton of money.

It's more like only having to say "purple" and then only get people who worked with purple before and are much more likely to be pro-purple than normal people who are overwhelmingly anti purple.

Just replace "purple" with "government secret".

Most evil in the world doesn't come from cartoon villains. It comes from people just doing their job but they have been filtered, trained and biased because of the rules of the system. If all they have to do is say "top secret" to get filter for a certain kind of desirable person and the entire process biased against democratic interests like freedom of the press and accountability for governments, then they win. "They" being the anti-democratic systems of power.

You're either in favor of freedom of the press and not throwing journalists into jail for uncovering things governments want to keep secret, or you're not.

This appeal to purity is misguided. The US want the power to extradite any journalist anywhere in the world for crimes against the state. Do you want that?

Minority rule

I'm ashamed to say I liked this more than I should have

From what I remember it was kinda like a GTA 3 predecessor?

Another criterion might be to be self employed. I have little experience with that and it probably has it's pro's and con's but depending on what corporate culture you'll face as an employee. But it might be worth keep it in mind when choosing your profession.