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Most comment here are not related to the problem, which is your interest & my interest & interest of 98% of HN others at least conflicting with the interest of
by Xen9 2y ago
Most comment here are not related to the problem, which is your interest & my interest & interest of 98% of HN others at least conflicting with the interest of those who control how humans vote. We know how things ought to be if everyone wanted them to be good for most humans. None of this discussion will however convince anyone to work more altruistically in reality.
Those who control the public opinion know that there's some opposition who confuses the problems with the conflict. They laugh since no one who thinks legislation like in the link would be generally bad can do anything. The ignorant will vote what the Orwellianishly-named "smartphone" will command them.
In the next five years, it's likely the option to stab the kings will be for the first time removed, since robotic militias will mean no insurance CEO can simply be shot. This means there will be zero limits to what cruelty they'll do you, since no matter how torturous it gets you'll be unable to even violently resist this. You'll have no democratic mouth, but you must scream. Completes cyberpunkization well.
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Aside: US drones + US satellites that enable global connectivity of drones was a rather obvious consequence of Starlink ~4 years ago. If they really want some person, they now can search most of Earth in few hours with the drones + computer vision, and soon with land robots, all connected through Starlink (starshield to use the euphemism). The irony is how this at the same time solves the connectivity problem.
- BurningFrog 2y agoWho are "those who control the public opinion"?
- Xen9 2y agoIn case I did, I would make sure I don't get pinpointed to, but in the US perhaps look at CFR / state department veterans & advertising corporations' stockholders & Google. In Europe traditional news sources there got economically slaughtered & replaced by few big online 1995-2005. This qas a consequence 1970s & 1980s academic networks working closely with US on web, and US then doing what it did with Google. If you can influence what ends up in the social media feed of those deciding about university curriculums and/or most politicians, that's quite powerful also. In Russia & China, there seems to be less hidden, less culture of valuing "free media." --- That public opinion "matters" but gets shaped is very plausible if you consider that most of history it didn't matter unless the public got very angry. Century of Self describes the process before Zuboff. One might argue that control of public opinion was originally more psychoanalytic idea, and then became more Skinnerian with computers.
- eastbound 2y agoChief-level people in newspapers.
- petre 2y agoBiometric databases will be hacked and leaked, criminals will perform cosmetic surgery to assume new identities. > US drones + US satellites that enable global connectivity of drones was a rather obvious consequence of Starlink ~4 years ago. One would probaby be safe from the US in Serbia, Transnistria and other non-US friendly places for a while, given enough bribe money. The US won't sneak drones into sovereign airspace without another state's approval even if they're looking for high level targets such as Osama bin Laden, Al Baghdadi, Qassem Soleimani. We are not talking about failed states or states in civil war like Syria, Libya or atates under US assistance like Iraq here.
- rcbdev 2y agoYou are insane if you think the U.S. couldn't get you out of the politically, economically and militarily small Serbia or Pridnestrovia. The only place where you'd stand a serious chance is Russia, if there's political backing. (see Snowden, Marsalek et al.)