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Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Funny thing about "best behavior" is that it's defined by whoever is in charge of the venue you're in, whether it's society ingeneral or a social media community. Somebody always dictates what's okay or not okay to say.
So billionaires will pay the right amount of taxes! Oh wait!
Larry "Xi Jinping" Ellison
Lets use it only on citizens who are billionaires to make sure they remain on their best behavior.
Larry Ellison is one of the biggest pieces of shit and Oracle can go fuck themselves.
Ah, the Panopticon. How novel.
you hear a sudden beep in your ears
"Sir you've not been smiling. We really want citizens to be smiling!"
Leave it to the associopathic billionaires to take a look at 1984 and decide to use it as an instruction book.
I heard a guy tell a story about a vast AI-fueled cluster of bombs strapped to Larry's head set to trigger if he says objectively inhumane, anti-democratic shit can ensure Larry stays a lot quieter.
Well, if you own a world inhabited by a few billion people, you want to make sure they’re optimally generating value for you and not bringing down the value of your holdings.
Of course it is, because that AI will totally not be programmed to ONLY surveil the lower tier sub-humans, Riiiiiiiiiight ?
Sure, it could, but should it? No of course not, a safe "utopian" society through force is dystopian and still unsafe (just now the danger is sanctioned, don't run afoul of Lord AI) in reality.
I'll take the possibility of getting shot by some dickhead over AI overlords watching my every move any day of the week.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Give the entirety of Lana'i to the Native Hawaiians via Hawaiian Home Lands and boot Larry Ellison out into the sea on a raft or something.
Can we apply it to tax cheats first?
The text is behind a paywall and I would actually like to see the details of what this idiot fuck said.
It will only ensure the opposite.
ORACLE - One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Lemme guess... Based on oracle no doubt. The wrong people are gonna prosper the next 4 years.
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Should work pretty good if the IRS uses it for tax audits.
Police could already use drones operated by humans to chase people. It's already possible and already safer. For some reason the police don't seem to give a shit about that. Their leaders don't care, and their leaders' leaders don't care. But go ahead billionaire man with AI, change the world.