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Yeah storage is very cheap. You have to understand information is very valuable. It is a small cost for big returns.
The real limitation on the power of the state is not the amount of data but the number of human interpreters of it they need to employ and pay (and trust)...that's the only real reason we still have any freedom at all.
The real limitation on the power of the state is not the amount of data but the number of human interpreters of it they need to employ and pay (and trust)...that's the only real reason we still have any freedom at all.
Well with AI and other tech that is a nominal restraint.
How about we start electing to public office people committed to the expansion of personal liberty and the repeal of those laws and activities which curtail personal liberty?
Of course then we have to find candidates who were clear on the concept.
The real limitation on the power of the state is not the amount of data but the number of human interpreters of it they need to employ and pay (and trust)...that's the only real reason we still have any freedom at all.
Massive databases and massive supercomputers to run the correlations. Hell, if Google can do it, what makes you think the Government cant? Or if they cant, what makes you think they wouldn't force Google to do it for them, promising a split of the ad revenue?
Seriously, in his great book on Google In The Plex Steven Levy reports on Google's support of Obama in 2008 and the appointments of a few Google employees to work for the Obama Administration. Who knows what they may be doing there?
How about we start electing to public office people committed to the expansion of personal liberty and the repeal of those laws and activities which curtail personal liberty?
Of course then we have to find candidates who were clear on the concept.
Massive databases and massive supercomputers to run the correlations. Hell, if Google can do it, what makes you think the Government cant? Or if they cant, what makes you think they wouldn't force Google to do it for them, promising a split of the ad revenue?
Yes but they still have to have someone to write the IT programs, at a minimum, and someone to read the reports and issue orders on the basis of them. That is some comfort, although it's far from reassuring.
Yes but they still have to have someone to write the IT programs, at a minimum, and someone to read the reports and issue orders on the basis of them. That is some comfort, although it's far from reassuring.
Just because real humans are involved doesn't mean real humans are being protected. Tech is just a tool. It is neither bad nor good.
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