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4. They will never outright legalize it anywhere
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 03:25 AM
17 hrs ago

While it remains something to hold over users once you have them in your net.

I don’t 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 -it’s already happening! It’s 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 don’t 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 it’s like a fucking computer or IPhone..that’s not that revolutionary. And it’s not exciting or interesting and not a reason to upend democracy and have multiple warlike pseudo democracies.

It’s like the “birds aren’t 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..

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