The tool is the final key for a omnipresent full time monitoring and control. Everywhere you move. Everything you say, everything you buy. They've had the mon

The tool is the final key for a omnipresent full time monitoring and control. Everywhere you move. Everything you say, everything you buy. They've had the monitoring technology for decades. The problem was the fire hose. There is no problem with the fire hose anymore. If this doesn't scare the s** out of you, then you're ignorant. Maybe if we had a well-functioning government I would hold out some degree of hope. But our Democratic institutions are already in shambles from facebook. All previous technologies basically enhanced the talent and intelligence. Yes AI can do that, but the difference this time is it replaces intelligence on a huge scale The role of the intelligensia, to borrow an old term, arguably has pushed idealistic progress on society with its monopoly on competence. That Monopoly on competence generally came with it. The essential counterbalance to centralized authority and power along with idealism and philosophically derived morality and righteousness. Ai is the end of the monopoly of competence for almost all the hacker news crowd. North Korea is the future with AI.