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    <!-- llm:summary="Digital twins promise perfect mirrors of reality. But who controls what gets mirrored—and what gets left out? The answer reveals everything about power in the age of simulation." -->
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    <!-- llm:summary="A critique of superintelligence discourse—engaging with the arguments, tracing their origins in the TESCREAL ideological bundle, and asking who benefits from the framing." -->
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