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Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'
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We don't need citizens to be on their best behavior, we need millionaires and billionaires to be on their best behavior.
Larry Ellison is one of the biggest pieces of shit and Oracle can go fuck themselves.
Lets use it only on citizens who are billionaires to make sure they remain on their best behavior.
This guy needs more luigi in his life
A symptom of believing they are better than others.
And by "citizens" you mean slaves.
On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet -- [Big Brother was] everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
-- George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four
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By all accounts, Larry is a piece of shit.
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
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Oh yeah, I consider him to be the worst billionaire of em all, even "trumping" that muskrat...
Oracle, the official company of "Look, we're developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you've activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha"
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Larry Ellison says that North Korea and China are great countries to live in
You first, and then we'll lock the door behind you, you mother fucker
Pardon my French, but these scum of the earth should rot in hell as far as I am concerned. They are a literal cancer for this world
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'citizens will be on their best behavior'
Compliant. He means compliant.
He's afraid of the masses.
I wonder why
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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.
There's a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.
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Leave it to the associopathic billionaires to take a look at 1984 and decide to use it as an instruction book.
Father Luigi won't you spare us from this clown
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti
they just can't help saying the quiet part out loud
what he really means is that "me and my buddies are fucking everyone else and we are afraid that there will be retaliation so we need mass surveillance"
We need another Luigi for this asshole.
ORACLE - One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Of course it is, because that AI will totally not be programmed to ONLY surveil the lower tier sub-humans, Riiiiiiiiiight ?
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.
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.
One
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Should work pretty good if the IRS uses it for tax audits.
He looks like the plastic version of Tim Allen as Santa from that Christmas movie.
you hear a sudden beep in your ears
"Sir you've not been smiling. We really want citizens to be smiling!"
Ah, the Panopticon. How novel.
So billionaires will pay the right amount of taxes! Oh wait!
Move to china you dick length.
Can we apply it to tax cheats first?
It will only ensure the opposite.
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