• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Breaking News.

    Man with vested interest in selling his services, insists buying his services is the only way to save us from the evil foreign menace

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      12 hours ago

      If you read his book The Technological Republic, he calls for a « collectivist » ideology and the merger of corporation and state. A few historical examples to choose from would be Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia or Communist China to get an idea of his vision for America’s future.

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        12 hours ago

        What? The man who rivals the spying ability of many nations isnt totally on the up and up? Whuda thunkit!

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    13 hours ago

    Look at this unfuckable loser. He’s like if someone glued Steve Bannon’s pubes to Steven Miller’s head. “Let us destroy all freedom in the USA so China doesn’t win the race to economically out-compete the USA” is as bullshit a justification as there has ever been for anything in the history of everything.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    Man who is the CEO of a business selling mass surveillance beyond the likes of even George Orwell’s 1984 says we should run head first into a surveillance state from which he will directly profit from.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race Planatir shareholders not getting rich fast enough

    Fixed it

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    22 hours ago

    The public needs public mass surveillance on CEOs and the top 1% only. They are the top threat to the world

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      18 hours ago

      There is that quick and funny operation that you can do using guilotine (or anything you can get your hands on if you’re creative enough!) that significantly reduce the need for oversight. I agree we should put monitoring around the mass grave in case those ghouls can actually get up. It’s a stretch, but better safe than sorry.

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      20 hours ago

      1000% this.

      They’re predators, both sexually and economically, and society has let them get away with their plans for far too long.

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    China WILL win the AI race and that’s because they invested in infrastructure and their power grid.

    The US could have done that too, but we gave the money to billionaires instead. Building a surveillance state doesn’t fix any of the mistakes we made and they’ll still win the AI race.

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      Not to sound like a tankie but China has made smarter decisions with regard to power generation. The current shift away from renewables (and shift back to fossil fuel) AND more reliance on central power generation are great for billionaires but just dumb for every other reason. And with the what appears to be advancing in battery technology more distributed solar cells with local storage would free up more power for the power hungry data centers. Not to mention the AI programs there are not run by douchebags like Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman.

      I also think the current path of AGI study via more advanced LLM research is the wrong path. A language generator is never going to be “smart”. But what do I know, I don’t have billions of dollars and lie constantly.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        It’s not Tankie to admit aspects of reality. China is doing some things well. China has spent the last 20 years investing in itself, America has spent the last 20 years investing in other countries for a possible ROI for the military-industrial complex.

        What would be Tankie would be to then extrapolate from that and say they’re actually the best state in the world and anyone who says otherwise is a imperialist brainwashed pigdog.

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        So we need to start covert anti-corruption efforts n China, since China will win, we don’t want a single party member destroying the world…I don’t know what we can actually do, but it is crucial for the human race that China develops more benevolent values if at all possible.

        • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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          I don’t know what we can actually do

          Make it easier for Chinese Nationals to study abroad, educate them on the idea of government transparency, separation of powers, checks and balances, the idea that government legitimacy comes from the people, idea of social contract, etc… Hope they bring back the knowledge to fix the country from within.

          (Btw, Overseas Chinese helped topple the Qing Regime and ended monarchism.)

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            I get a sense that in the CCP, you wouldn’t get into any position with actual influence unless your peers and superiors have some leverage on you (they know you’ve done done shady shit which they can expose if you become a nuisance).

            So in that way, actually interparty radicalism is curtailed.

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    23 hours ago

    I bet you’d be able to get a great grip on his hair as you wind up with the other hand for that oh-so-punchable face.