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Exactly. Anyone of average intelligence who falls for this just isn't paying attention.

The amount of privilege in the way he and others like him navigate the world is the root of this problem. He believes this solutions will work because that’s the way the world works for him. It’s very much a “let them eat” cake level of disconnect with the average person and the world they live in.

the only pretend to have read that book so they don't look dumb at dinner parties

"Orwell is when people say their pronouns" is probably the beginning and end of their "understanding" here.

Stupid people with money, my dad was one.

Why isn't the off the cuff response to this sort of surveillance utopianism "you first." Like, proportionally how much technology is online in the Ellison manse, conveyances and on his own person to ensure he's on his "best behavior" at all times. Why can't Dealbook et al ever deal out that.

Called inheritance

yes, and they firmly believe that they got their wealth because of their superior smartness which qualifies them to rule the world

These people are psychopaths. They now run our country.

“Every cop and citizen will be on their best behavior because they’re recorded 24/7.” 1: No they won’t. 2: They’ll find gaps in the system or it’ll fail in other unanticipated ways. This is like asking a toddler how to build a safe society.

He is old and losing his mind.

These cameras are fake. China posted fake vids a few yrs ago.

yeah, again, who is this ultra-ethical person at the head of the AI surveillance chain in the world he's helped build? Especially once he's passed on. Brendan Fucking Carr?

The only thing the plantation owners fear, and I mean the only thing, is a peasant mob armed with torches and pitchforks. It's on the order of Frank Herbert Dune race-memory fear for them. That's why they want the total surveillance society. To monitor the peasants.

they don't intend it to be themselves, but power is fickle like that. And he's enabling authoritarianism, which isn't known for being discerning about the application of this sort of power. Again, I don't get the sense that these men are particularly fucking bright!

Smarmy

This also means whistleblowers will be even more hesitant to come forward, fearing not just corporate retribution but also government persecution, further entrenching the lack of accountability.

End stage capitalism. A few billionaires control us by the tech conglomerates and paid goons. Thiel, Musk, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Bezos, none of them is ethical.

You have to be mentally unstable to do exactly the things this guy did to his Oracle customers.

I want my Danny Bonaduce mask back

And this is the guy who owns Star Trek (fuck me) 🙄

Good point! I had forgotten. Whoops, here come the freedom police, with their innovation batons.

Good thing that power never corrupts!

Call me lightweight, but that "beard" alone is disqualifying.

This dingleberry can't tell a panopticon from a pan dulce

Well, for sure, but just kind of cooking off his absurd premise. These people are such fools.

Well stated...

hoo boy

raging insecurity fused with a weird class advertisement to other rich people that "I can afford to have work done"

Fear of death...and their own mortality and the inability to truly create anything of worth and value from their own minds, or "rib" so to speak. I say this knowing that he has children... It's just the way their brains function. On fear and the 'cover-up' of fear. They share this w/MAGA plebs.

FUCK these @billionaire assholes

minority report

...and who monitors and records the watchers? Who do they answer to? Who holds them accountable?