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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AI camera VS. A .45 Magnum

Tune in next decade to find out who will win this epic battle.

Edit: Why does this guy look like Adam Sutler from V for Vendetta?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just gonna tell tweakers those things are full of copper

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation. The architecture consists of a rotunda with an inspection house at its centre. From the centre, the manager or staff are able to watch the inmates. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums. He devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a panopticon prison, so the term now usually refers to that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

He proposed a shitty Art Park on Lanai, the island he bought the majority of, and wanted to set up surveillance to stop "vandals".

Worked on the plumbing for the fountains he wanted to building. Those surveillance measures never came to be, yet...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shitty billionaire has a shitty take. Shocker.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Will Ellison and government officials volunteer to be observed for next 5 years to prove software?

(No.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do we even care what these tech-bro ass hats think? We already collectively know his vision apply only to "poor people".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Because they have undue power over our lives.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Can't wait for a hallucinating AI to report me for assault because I hugged someone in public.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Maybe they should require everyone to be happy all the time. I'm just imagining everyone going around with freaky smiles.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, he's a billionaire. I guess there's big money on propping up totalitarian regimes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's start by putting up cameras in all his houses.

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