Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
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Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#2And of course, the best behavior will be the behavior that poses zero threat to the people in power. What a great future we have ahead of us, my colleagues.
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#3I'm 100% sure a man like him, with lots of money, will have "interesting" life. The fact that he's willing to be recorded, is he an exhibitionist?
Oh wait, he's exempted?
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#4> Ellison's warning came during an hour-long Q&A at an Oracle financial analyst meeting in September 2024.
AI has been moving too fast to care about what some billionaire's opinion on it was 2 years ago.
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#5Look how well it worked for cops! I'm not suggesting we get rid of their bodycams, but it's easily gamed.
It's one thing to be rich and enjoy the luxuries afforded by that, but to buy dominance over the very lives of others is when the angry mob retaliation is entirely justifiable.
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#6If anyone managed to stick around through the later, lesser seasons of HBO’s Westworld, they were rewarded with a shockingly plausible view of the world Ellison is describing.
And at a time when most of the computing technology required still seemed like sci-fi. I remember kind of chuckling at the idea that the machine intelligence had made and saved a recording of a random conversation Aaron Paul’s character had with his mother in a diner a decade prior.
I have never been a privacy zealot, but it seems inevitable barring major political action that the panopticon will emerge comprehensive, actionable, and cheap.
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#8And of course, the best behavior will be the behavior that poses zero threat to the people in power. What a great future we have ahead of us, my colleagues.
It's subjective. When I was a kid, "best behavior" didn't include assaulting law enforcement and smearing feces on the walls of Congress, but these days that behavior is acceptable, even officially celebrated.
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#9What really gets to me is how big tech isn't even pretending anymore to serve society. They clearly feel superior to the rest of us and entitled to rule.
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#10And of course, the best behavior will be the behavior that poses zero threat to the people in power. What a great future we have ahead of us, my colleagues.
That is kinda what is going on in China.