Keep in mind that Larry Ellison is fundamentally incapable of caring whether or not “citizens will be on their best behavior.” The only reason he would say a thing such as this is because he sees an opportunity to make money from such a system.
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.
- Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)
I think this is great advice for billionaires in general.
You have to be extremely sick to become one.
Fuck this fascist! We need to eat them ASAP. Or just bury the useless flesh. Either way, they shouldn’t come back from this…
NGL I did a double take tryna figure out why they used a picture of Tim Allen for that headline.
Was wondering what took a shit all over his face
Yeah, that would make any kind of political speech practically impossible. Activism? Nope, out of the question. Creative artistic expression? Better watch out for the thought police.
We don’t need “best behavior,” that would be so incredibly boring.
His out of touch suggestion is completely incompatible with democracy.
The United States already prosecutes many activists as terrorists, or at least tries to charge them. All this would do is turn that up to eleven.
100%
Here’s a very recent example of just that.
Isn’t this basically what china is right now? Where’s all the tankie that would wanna defend him?
I’m trying to think of which robot dystopia/apocalypse this most closely resembles.
1984 meets Skynet
THX 1138
To increase efficiency consumption is being regulated.
No fictional dystopia needed. China already performs mass surveillance and has systems in place to enforce desirable behaviours in citizens. This is just another evolutionary phase.
Minority Report maybe
Sprawl?
Person of Interest, no? That’s exactly what that was. 😅
Right? There are probably hundreds of novels theorizing about how this turns out. Most of them unflattering I would guess, based on however many I have read
We literally need to start turning all billionaires into compost.
It’s all fun and games until said system is used against you either by hackers, insider with mallicious intent or the goverment goverment.
Albeit said A.I systems could also be used to get rid of billionares by simply exposing tax loopholes, tracking illegal transactions and by finding answers from any leaked data which will be more plentiful when such systems gets in to place.This is the kind of shit Amazon drivers already have to put up with. Remember hearing about how their singing can alarm the AI driver facing camera watchdog? If they’re not willing to go on strike to get rid of surveillance in the work place then it’s all too likely the average citizen won’t do anything about it either.
…what is wrong with singing in their car???
Them moving their mouth too much made the AI think they were distracted driving and would dock them for it.
This person is a danger.
God, will someone just punch him already?
You keep giving us reason to eat you.
I hope Larry Ellison, trips and knocks out his front teeth.
That guy is a raging piece of shit.
