What does a "president of Microsoft" do? Is that better than an "executive vice president"?
It seems like it means "chief legal officer".
Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024
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#32It seems that some tech executives, having more money than any person could spend, often seek what they see as the next level of accomplishment, which is proximity to power and decisions over life and death. That shows up as this sort of militaristic nationalism along lines that conveniently happen to align with their claimed expertise. Of course neither of the executives interviewed in this article really knows that much about "AI", so the predictions in the article are not based on any kind of evidence, so much as they are political statements designed to create and maintain the conditions for making themselves seem essential to the defense industry.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ideal case is not sending naked fotos online, if you'd be embarrassed by that kind of thing. and I would never trust any kind of technology to keep medical or legal secrets. I generally assume that anything I submit to a remote server may be compromised and released at some point. You always have to place absolute trust in someone, even Google. It doesn't matter what Eric Schmidt says. You're trusting dozens of c…
> I would never trust any kind of technology to keep medical or legal secrets Paper too, is in a sense, technology.
It is, but paper cannot be compromised in large volumes by remote actors.
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#35Big Tech representative says "look over there!" (China) while his industry unleashes 1984 domestically. Ridiculous, don't fall for it.
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#36I can't be the only one thinking we've passed 1984 already?
Is there a telestrator in your living room that will cause you to go to jail if you mutter something negative about the government?
That's what people remember about 1984, but that actually only applied if you were middle class like Winston, since they didn't control his boss nor any of the proles.
So the actual message of the book was that living in England sucks, which as far as I can tell is still true.
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#37I can't be the only one thinking we've passed 1984 already?
I personally believe we crossed that Rubicon once we granted the play store our vaccination status, contact tracing strangers etc.
That was the undeniable shift towards hard totalitarianism.
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#38Of course the established big tech player is lobbying for more regulations to slow down any potential competition.
Yes. That doesn’t make it incorrect. A race to the bottom sinks all boats.
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#40Hasn't North Korea been living it for like 50 years?