Don't disagree with his Newspeak
...that would be a thoughtcrime.
AI is on the verge of ushering in a new era of mass surveillance, says Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, adding that his juggernaut is ready to serve as the technological backbone for such applications. Those applications including keeping everyone "on their best behavior" through the use of constant real-time machine-learning- …
Larry Ellison is an obsoletetartfart.
There FTFY.
Being a left-ponder, it seems that tart is a bit to genteel for He Who Would Be The Next Minister of Truth. Now if there is a more sinister side to the word that we left-ponders might not know about, then I stand corrected, and would withdraw my "fix"
Mass surveillance is useless unless you have a police state. Everyone has seen recent videos of daylight robbery in US retail shops. Neither supposed mass surveillance by the Big Tech helped prevent scam and enormous disinformation campaigns. Once judiciary system is also automated, maybe. You'll need AI lawyers. Else mass surveillance is a nuisance and a privacy risk.
It may work in countries with less human rights. Though sometimes I wish western countries introduced certain citizen ratings. For example reducing score for theft, destruction of public property etc. With an option to clear the records provided considerable monetary compensation. Even punishing small theft will help by addressing "broken windows", as chewing gum in Singapore. Corruption is a learnt behavior from small things unpunished.
Ironically the ratings are de facto provided by third parties: background checks, credit scores etc. Some are scraped from social networks. This hypocrisy makes things difficult, expensive, but well available to the richest. How is the business supposed to perform, when vandalism and theft are rampant. Cost of security systems and personnel is huge.
"With an option to clear the records provided considerable monetary compensation"
So just like now then?
The poor get hit the hardest and the rich just buy their way out?
Laws were, and always will be made for the protection of the rich and powerful. Any protection it provides to the poor is just a side show.
> the rich just buy their way out?
First, stealing 1 million would require a prison term and a costly law enforcement procedure. Alternatively, in a friendlier society, the cost would be 250k plus returning the stolen 1M. Second, rich people are a tiny percentage of the population. Third, in some Scandinavian countries, I heard, road tickets are adjusted to person's wealth. Forth, the society will function much better for the poor, as any crime-infested country proves by contradiction.
Habits become character. The goal is to tackle small crime. Besides it is disproportionally expensive to involve law enforcement for small crime, yet it must be addressed for educational reasons. Parents should bear the score points for their kids. Or pay on spot, thus compensating businesses and public budget.
The relative compensation should be larger for small goods. For example a stolen water bottle should cost 100x the price. A stolen iPhone would require 1.5x payment (100% for the phone if damaged + 50% punishment payback). Additional coefficients should be added for hard-to-catch crimes, such as graffiti.
The situation would dramatically improve within a year from the introduction of the scores. The worse offenders will be denied access to public transportation etc. Businesses will be allowed to deny their entrance. There are no human rights without responsibility.
"Parents should bear the score points for their kids"
This is key. The "state" wants to take over parental responsibility so they can mold children to the state's needs. God help our children. We should also remember that the "state" becomes a group of depraved, corrupt, power mad people who want everything. The more power they have the worse they become. Never a truer word than; "Absolute power, corrupts absolutely".
Talking of China. Buying drugs should be added to the personal score too. Many (mostly?) rich people take drugs, as they are expensive. Making such scores public will scare the sh*t out of them, as this would destroy careers. So let them pay once, and never finance drug cartels again. This would be a better approach than either criminalizing or decriminalizing drugs.
You will lose your human rights. The chaos and 2 tier policing/justice is intentional and planned. It is to destroy our current society and rebuild into a tyrannical dystopia. What is Kamala's chant? "A future unburdened by the past". Understand how bad this is, they consider us their cattle.
Let's mandate this constant recording and reporting for billionaire tech bros too. Everything they do 24 hours a day, with an "AI" deciding whether they've done anything wrong. Just to watch how suddenly less keen on the idea they become.
Time to get rid of arses like these! Rise up and REMOVE THEM ALL FROM POWER! 2nd Amendment goes here! Rise UP and REBEL against ALL governments and authoritarian arses! REMOVE THEM PERIOD!!! FOREVER FORM OUR LIVES! Dump them ALL onto some pacific island where they can fight the sharks and Komodo dragons for food and their lives!
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You'll never get rid of morons like this because other morons will STILL continue to do business with them. Oracle has been rotten to the core for decades and they're still there even though everyone knows they're getting screwed. Clearly they like it.
Larry boy just thinks he's smart and relevant. He's neither in reality but of course he's running a business that for some reason people won't tell to fsck off.
I'm hoping he is giving an undercover warning of what will happen if we don't block this control mania.
After all, what counts is who makes the rules that AI polices. History and experience tells us we can't trust the majority of those who seek power. The founding fathers tried to guard against that but it's being undone. Many cry but it keeps us safe yet everyone has a point when they will sacrifice safety for freedom. I fear many will not realise what they have let in until too late and then be shocked when they infringe a minor law and receive disproportionate penalty.
Mass surveillance of the lawful for the tiny minority of criminals is a step too far, mistakes and racial bias bound to happen. Bad enough now with the amount of CCTV. May happen in repressive regimes like China, Russia and USA but not in the EU or UK thankfully.
natural selection applied to "bad behaviour."
This nong's customary complete lack of insight appears to want to retain the world's current dysfunction in perpetuity.
Those who challenge the prevailing status quo are invariably labelled trouble makers and their activities "bad behaviour" or worse.
I am certain the framing of the US Constitution was considered bad behaviour by George III and with hindsight I am not entirely sure that he would have been mistaken.
One doesn't need omniscence to discern that the original, creative and inventive individuals who over the millenia have given us our culture and civilisation weren't particularly notable for their "best behaviour."
You would think this chap would be more circumspect in his pronouncements, given were he to turn up to an audition for the role of Mephistopheles would be the automatic choice.
Most of the Vulturati from their bitter experience in dealing with Oracle already know their need for very long spoon.
In fairness, the US constitution was originally formulated to cement the power of land-holding white men and entrench slavery.
Any good that has come from it is a result of very hard work, an extremely bloody civil war, and decades of civil unrest to amend it or attempt to get it to apply equally. And even that is a constant battle.
When reality feels like playing Deus Ex (1) in 2000 and you're thinking, surely not. The augmentations would be nice by now. That game's vision of the future has come true to an eerie extent (except I don't have augmentations yet, so if the universe is listening, that would be nice to have to somewhat offset the societal disruption and panopticon society)