"citizens on their best behavior" "big brother is always watching"
Don't sound very different to me
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"citizens on their best behavior" "big brother is always watching"
Don't sound very different to me
And who will decide what is good and bad behaviour? Hmm? And what advantage will society as a whole get from this?
billionaires and their super important opinions eh? having money is a personality trait apparently
“People behave themselves in a panopticon”-rich people
Firstly no, people don’t. Second, they go crazy in one. And third, this basically breaks down the threads of both community and individualism to create a miserable nightmare
Breaking community and individualism is kinda a big thing billionaires want because that way people can't organise to rise up against them.
billionaires who talk like this should immediately be committed. he's clearly far gone, just fucking take him away.
Maybe billionaires should be filmed and streamed continuously, since their behavior has such a big impact on the world. If they don't like it maybe we shouldn't allow them to control such incredible assets. I'm sure billionaires have nothing sketchy to hide, right? What we will see is probably how they are hard working people who are not at all detached from normal folks. Right?
Wrong think detected, proper authority has been notified.
Resitence iis futile.
1984
Is this what Ted Kaczyinski (the Unabomber) warned against?
That and global warming
Ever notice that Larry Ellison looks like Satan?
I thought satan looks like that
If that’s the devil maybe I should be glad being gay is getting me sent into her arms
Wait, isn't this the father of Megan Ellison, the owner of Annapurna Interactive? The woman who just made her entire team so mad they quit.
Larry, AI didn't stop you from stealing an island from the people of Hawaii
By "citizens" he means poor people, naturally, and by "best behaviour" he means obedience to authority.
And by authority he means himself.
in bad country the ruling class uses AI scoring system to ensure the compliance of the workers
So glad we live in good country where the ruling class are benevolent and would never do that to us.
I'm missing emoji reactions (not replies), jeje
"[Stupid rich person shit]"
--Larry Ellison, soon to be major shareholder of Paramount
He looks like if Tim Allen upped his coke intake
And I guarantee that billionaire Larry Ellison blithely believes that he'll be exempt - that all of this surveillance will just be used against the little people. And he's almost certainly right.
He will be exempt. The areas that he lives in and the things that he does will not be tagged as "criminal" on the data system that he has the contract to administer.
That's always how these systems work. You don't worry about getting dragged into the Saudi Consulate and bonesawed to death by intelligence officers when you're MBS, because you're the boss and the guy getting bonesawed is your employee.
For the same reason, you don't worry about getting spied on when you're the one who owns and operates the big surveillance infrastructure because it exists for your benefit.
"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."
And if we entertained the idea that this was true and the core focus of this idea (it's not) what do we think the chances are that the "appropriate person" will be one of two things:
Another cop
A subscription service digital surveillance company with that cop as a client that they report back to for "internal investigation", as long as the bill is paid.
Even if his vision for the future worked perfectly (which it won't) and wasn't abused (which it will be, rampantly and immediately), it's still a complete dystopian nightmare lol
Like the police unions will ever permit the policing of the police 🤣🤣🤣
The first XKCD that comes to mind
Ellision sounds like the kind of guy that wants an unstoppable army of robot swarms.
Representative Jamie Raskin recently brought up the term neo-monarchy.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin
Owner of Cloud company that sells AI services tells governments that AI-powered surveillance is good.
Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.
But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.
Outside of just saying "America" or "Capitalism" How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?
I think that word is tyranny, if we’re sticking with Greek.
Fuck you Larry.
Only the fact that he is able to say shit like that out loud is a sign of a rotting society. People are ok with being their slaves
"Will it blend?" - in today's episode, Larry Ellison, massive waste of skin and resources.
He’s voicing what every billionaire and government official already thinks. Call me pessimist but I believe it’s unavoidable. VPNs are seen as “tools to overcome government bans to access illegal websites” in so many countries, hence getting banned. Access to mainstream websites also getting harder and harder when on VPN. People hosting Tor exit nodes are living in fear of police raids.
Even with some little amount of privacy protecting measures, websites start to act strangely or do not work, and the amount of websites like this increases every day. As protecting our privacy becomes a bigger and bigger effort, more people will give up, strengthening the arguments against it. Eventually we’ll hit big brother levels.
Eventually we’ll hit big brother levels.
As someone who was born before the age of surveillance capitalism, I can tell you we've hit that level a long time ago. Anybody who thinks society has been running normally for at least the past 15 years is too young to have known what a normal society is.
So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.
When envisioning the rising of such surveillance system turning our prison into a planet, I had always hoped that the "hackers" in the world would protect us from such.
sounds like a nazi
My best behavior is to be on Larry Ellison's front yard with pitchforks burning torches and guillotines.
Put yourself on public camera streams first as a test. I bet this guy is not always on his best behavior
“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.
Robocop... the movie they love but don't realize is a complete mockery of THEM. As a kid I thought that Robo was just cool, but as I got older and rewatched it a few times, I realized just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You know what's one profound thing I noticed a few years ago that flew over my head? The ED-209 robot does not have a non-lethal apprehension method. It only threatens to kill for non-compliance, and then does so if compliance is not absolute. It has no way of restraining or leading arrested suspects if they comply, and no other method to deal with non-compliant suspects other than to blow them away. No tasers, no net gun, no ropes, no tear gas, no sci-fi 'set for stun' laser beam, nothing.
On top of that another thing I realized is that Dick Jones considered that thing to be street ready to take on law enforcement. From everything to ultra-violent encounters to jaywalking and parking tickets. What it tells me about his mentality is that he would be a HIGHLY successful billionaire today...