While it remains something to hold over users once you have them in your net.
I dont buy the inflated claims of the surveillance state to the extent that there is : 1) legit alarm and 2) the BULLSHIT head game of trying to pretend that -its already happening! Its inevitable! I am seeing things in ai and quantum computing that is beyond anything!
Okay wtf are you seeing and someone like Yan LeCun (almost the only figure I respect in ai) can correct me on this. But I dont believe that any science is so complicated that a good science communicator cannot explain it.
So without further proof, based on the junk I have seen, if its like a fucking computer or IPhone..thats not that revolutionary. And its not exciting or interesting and not a reason to upend democracy and have multiple warlike pseudo democracies.
Its like the birds arent real test after a point. Beyond this point unless you have something truly amazing expecting people to suspend disbelief and then lamely ..oh ffs..
Some days I am so exasperated..