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You know it’s bad when even Sergey Brin is creeped out. Member when googles motto was “don’t be evil”? I member!

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well mr yuri, it does kinda seem like maybe "AI driven minority report" is not a sound basis for government.

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Right, and the main point of Minority Report is that “pre-crime” doesn’t work. It is just as vulnerable to corruption, if not more so.

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Dec 16, 2023·edited Dec 16, 2023

That's precisely why they like it. It eliminates dissidents and their pesky human rights. Pre-crime works great for authoritarians and corporate criminals. The terrorist watch-lists of the Five Eyes are filled with people who have never been charged with a crime and don't meet the "reasonable suspicion" requirements.

https://odysee.com/@psinergy:f/trim.E989AF7A-45A7-4FE3-A0A7-472E07AE4759:8

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Dec 16, 2023·edited Dec 16, 2023

....and the BF Skinner-style no-touch torture for wrongthink and whistle-blowers (or because the psychopath in charge doesn't like your face.)

The nano-sized biosensors (AI) have been inhaled by all of us via ubiquitous geoengineering (atmospheric aerosol injection or chemtrails.) Our asses are connected to the cloud (DARPA's supercomputers.)

https://odysee.com/@psinergy:f/trim.106F877E-8F1E-44AA-8793-D531C5425724:b

https://odysee.com/@psinergy:f/trim.E989AF7A-45A7-4FE3-A0A7-472E07AE4759:8

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I always thought that motto was Google's idea of a sarcastic joke...or possibly just accidental projection.

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No, they genuinely wanted to do no evil. I think they put the motto in place when they were fresh Stanford graduates, about 25 years ago.

I always thought it was strange that they didn't realize that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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I can't help myself, Pepperage farm remembers too.

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But, Evil is a such a relative and pedestrian concept. It’s evil when “they” do it. Not so much when “we” do it. Like fomenting revolutions...or state sponsored terror...or domestic spying...or rigging elections...or torture...or assassinations...or blowing up pipelines...or lying to achieve your ambitions...

Can we find a more concrete and irreducible metric?

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Exactly!

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There you go hating again Tovarisch. When will you give up your domineering, supremacist ways?

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Leaping leopards the cat's out of the bag and he has a plan:

https://rumble.com/v150b35-klaus-the-bengal.html

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As Tom Woods says "No matter who gets elected, we end up with John McCain. "

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I remember when they changed the motto to "Be less evil." Sort of like the with elections where people say "vote for the lesser of two evils" which boils down to the fact that you are still voting for evil.

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I hope he stays creeped out enough not to succumb to the bribes and threats that'll be coming his way.

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Sergey, Sergey, where did you parents go wrong? Why are you even on stage with that satanic villain?

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They've been saying the quiet part out loud more and more often lately.

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They likely believe (with good reason) that no one is going to do anything about it. Kind of like Lily Tomlin's phone operator, "We're the phone company - we don't care because we don't have to."

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"What is technocratic enslavement?"

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Try "Social Credit Score System" for $400, Alex.

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Of course that works! It's how they knew Trump would be elected, right?

So much easier to just pick our leaders than to have to subvert the DOJ to destroy them once the election goes bad.

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Don't worry, Comrade Gato. AI will fix this. AI and crypto.

And if you believe that, I've got a vaccine to sell you.

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If crypto isn’t a problem for the powers that be, why does Elizabeth Warren hate it so much?

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Free AI and free crypto is a solution. Do they let it be free though? This is the problem...

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They already lost. If Bitcoin fails, then it’s Kaspa. If that fails it’s something else. There’s no putting it back in the bottle.

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Friend of mine who works at Treasury told me yesterday re: crypto, "It's not a currency unless the United States says it's a currency." I'm afraid she's right.

Beyond that, these people have been all over this stuff for years. It ain't gonna come easy.

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It’s a big world with different actors and different motivations. Some people use cigarettes to smoke. Some use them to settle trade.

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And some use them to set fires.

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Let’s see if the US even survives this decade at this rate.

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Ooo a very apropos update on a bridge to sell you …

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What could go wrong?

“We can preempt your life, because the algorithm predicts you’re going to die at some point anyway.”

Sometimes it’s the journey itself that is the whole point.

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It's not the dying, it's the totalitarianism we created along the way!

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Why is everybody so ticklish about it?

Klaus is not saying anything new or controversial. He is merely trying to convert the current election system into a more efficient one, environmentally sustainable.

Right now we have huge nation-wide campaigns which cost a lot of money and require a lot of work by thousands of dedicated people. It is the analytical part in Schwab’s terminology. Then we have the actual voting activities, involving immense energy consumption (the machines), time and aerobatics with the results, output from the machines against the winners. He calls it the predictive power, which is prone to human error and somewhat uncontrollable. And the final stage, called the prescriptive mode by Schwab, in his own words: “Why do we need elections, because we know what result will be.” This one has been the essential core of every election system worldwide since the invention of elections. Even in the smallest companies and agencies.

Franklin D. Roosevelt said it in open text: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

Klaus Schwab is only trying to gently help us to understand that we need to drop stages one and two, save money, save time, save effort, and accept the winner right away - because he has already been chosen and approved, as endorsed by Roosevelt.

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"Environmentally sustainable" is definitely something I strive for in elections. 😉

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Explain Trump. Explain Brexit. Explain Milei.

We should never be ruled by AI gods, which is what Klaus is talking about more broadly.

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So true. Maybe that's why 76.9% comments on Substacks are created bu AI. But don't worry, it will improve.

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I think he already answered your question before you asked: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

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There is a part of my brain that can hardly accept that Herr Klaus is actually real, rather than some grotesque, cretinous evolution of Max Headroom:

https://youtu.be/cYdpOjletnc?t=49

The man is like the socio-political version of the inadvertent financial arch-contrarian Jim Cramer, with a nearly perfect track record of not being just wrong, but somehow being the polar opposite of right.

How is it possible, really, that the modern permutation of every single catastrophic idea of the past few centuries could be contained within a single man's mind?

The man is literally liberty antimatter. Totalitarianism personified. As far as I'm aware, his every utterance is an assault on one aspect or another of every iota of human freedom wrested from the clutches of criminal rulers (redundant?) since the Magna Carta, and perhaps before.

And despite (or, for the true cynic, perhaps because of) the fact that in the last century his ilk have produced a mountain of corpses that would reach low orbit, with levels of destruction, dislocation, impoverishment and oppression on scales that defy quantification, not only do we still have to tolerate such people, but see them rise to prominence, influence and great wealth.

I find it incomprehensible to the point that at times part of my mind simply rebels, insisting that Klaus, Comrade Biden, Fidel Jr., Jacobin Jacinda, Bolshie Birx, Fasces Fauci and the rest can only be members of a cast of thousands in the largest horror show production in the history of mankind.

But sadly, the suspension of disbelief rapidly fades and reality reasserts itself, leaving me longing for a small dark room and a large bottle of scotch.

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It's hard to imagine a more realistic version of a Bond Villain than Klaus. Half a century ago, my initial impression of Rand's villains in Atlas Shrugged were surreal. Today they are ubiquitous.

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Wesley Mouch brought to life, sucking the life out of the rest of us.

"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – You may know that your society is doomed."

~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

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Couldn't have said it better myself.

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Evil is clearly more confident now...

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A true psychopath. DSM should have his photo next to the diagnostic criteria.

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“We won’t need elections anymore….” Said every tyrannical, authoritarian as$hole everywhere. Sorry Schwab, the US Constitution requires elections, so GFY.

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But wouldn't it be nice to have someone to vote for? Trump did a few good things, but he was also responsible for promoting the "speed of science" jabs. Though he didn't start any wars while he was prez, he seems to be war mongering now. But I don't follow him so I probably shouldn't be too critical.

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Well WTF did you expect when they spent 30 years convincing you their machines could predict the temperature 100 years hence?

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And theres ice on the lake here in Saskatcheaan. Not sure how thick but theres an ATV risking the warming, fish huts to follow soon. Color me unconvinced. ;-)

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I remain unconvinced. But, I’m stubborn that way.

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I’m not sure I understand what he’s saying. AI can only predict based on what it can observe. Polls are often wrong, generally favoring blue. And historical cycles involve phases that we would seek to avoid if possible-is the AI going to say, “now is when there will be a coup and a bloody revolution and a century of economic regression-this is the guy for the job!”?

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Klaus has a prediction for that too: In the unlikely event that annoying citizens rise up against the government predicted for them, Klaus predicts that said predicted government will permanently suspend all privileges involving the purchase of food, water, heat and shelter allowed on said annoying citizens’ digital currency. Easy Peasy!

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Who controls the AI? If search results can be filtered, why not AI results?

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Dec 16, 2023·edited Dec 16, 2023

I think he's really saying the "prescriptive programming " won't be controlled by the will of the people in the dystopian technocracy.

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I like the way you think

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Keep in mind that underneath the Bond villain appearance, he's really just a dope.

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The soviet union ultimately failed because it mispriced everything which meant shortages grew

In the west we have recessions because the central banks mal-price credit (favoring feudalism over work)

this will "misprice" government and quite quickly as people will not be allowed to say what they really want their government to prioiritise.

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If someone were to kidnap Schwab and televise his being eaten alive by army ants, it would be good for the world.

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And just think of the Nielsen ratings!

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Stay tuned for Nov 2024….

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