Psycho Pass anyone?
I aim to misbehave
Love me a good Firefly reference.
That went well.
“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
Larry, AI didn’t stop you from stealing an island from the people of Hawaii
what he really means is he can make a ton of money out of it
What he really means is the rich can prevent uprisings against them before they have a chance to start.
It’s both! His slaves create the system, then sell it to the government, who is bribed to ensure it gets used.
It’s both! His slaves create the system, then sell it to the government, who is bribed to ensure it gets used.
Fuck you Larry.
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.
Well, we already experience that psychological torture. After 2002/2003, and then especially after 2012, this concept has already burdened our everyday behavior. Browsing behavior, phone calls, texts, emails…every single way we communicate, even face to face meetings with phones in our pockets are open to surveillance. And it’s been shown that it’s been used. Over a decade ago, thanks to Snowden. Now? Things have surely gotten worse and I would bet the farm on behavior very much having changed due these facts.
And not for the better. I think people are actually much less kind to each other when they are aware of being observed. Or worse, deliberately performing for content.
Yeah, another factor I didn’t even mention. The voluntary surveillance.
Clarissa-Jan Lim wrote a great article which called it ‘Panopticontent’. That phrase lives in my head forever now.
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.
Who defines what best behavior is?
Bending over, touching your toes, and not complaining when this guy comes out from hiding in the bushes and sticks something up ur but
Well, Larry obviously.
Coincidentally, Larry will not be under surveillance.
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.
“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:
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Another cop
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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 🤣🤣🤣
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Lmg, he’ll be exempt from this surveillance along with all his rich ass-hole buddies
Subjugating the working class majority is literally the whole point of establishing a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Didn’t the French have a solution to this problem? Something about heads, or a lack there of.
sounds like a nazi
This guy’s company is planning to build nuclear-powered datacenters btw. Check in with yourself on whether you think that’s a good power this responsible human being should have.
My best behavior is to be on Larry Ellison’s front yard with pitchforks burning torches and guillotines.
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
