I know how to handle a day when you feel extremely lazy. Decide that, given that you’re a lazy person, you will work diligently for only 30 entirely focused minutes on the most important thing, and then take the rest of the day off. You will do your best work on these days.
Democracies normally have safeguards that prevent their military and intelligence apparatus from being turned inwards against their own population,31
31 For example, in the United States this includes the fourth amendment and the Posse Comitatus Act. but because AI tools require so few people to operate, there is potential for them to circumvent