the data they collected from spying on you requires a space to store and hardware to process them

These data centers provide them

They got Luigi because a McDonald’s employee believed the bullshit about there being reward money for narcing.

literally

Probably not

two weeks in mass.

Bone apple tea!

• in mass - that's like boycotting Church
• en masse - as a group

I have heard many variations to this point but I would like to point out a counter example. The great depression in the US that lasted for a decade. The average income level for families fell by 40%. People regularly starved to death and even by WWII almost 50% of men were turned away from recruitment because they were malnourished.

Guess what? No revolution, no collapse just massive suffering.

Any plan that requires everyone to just comply to the same idea will never work.

The NSA has had it for decades.

...but also, we all have IP addresses. Internet wouldn't work the same without them.

It needs more compute.

Years ago (just before everything became AI this and AI that) there was a discussion about the collection of big data - essentially, the very plausible argument was that you can collect all you want but you just can't sift through it in time. There always were reports of how this terrorist's FB timeline showed his radicalisation - after they killed people.

So people called for small data instead: just collect the metadata. Not that I approve of that either, but it would have made more sense, also wrt environmental impact i.e. energy consumption.

But very soon AI came, Trump was already there, and suddenly it was all Big Data again - plus AI.

This is where we are now. And speaking for the devil: the infrastructure needs to grow to keep up with all the exciting new possiblities.

yeah this is just more of "enclose private property and charge rents on it" imo

Not to the extent they will have if they succeed in their cloud subscription terminals for all project instead of personal computers.

the ones they managed to populate with computers will be used for surveillance, the ones that are sitting empty will be the prisons

never [attribute] to malice what could [adequately] be explained by stupidity

People see dollarmarks and forget everything else.

So greed overcomes even Hanlon? I see there's a point there, but what if greed is just malice by a colder name? Malice at least is intentional and driven, but greed gets kinda indifferent as it trivializes the lives of others for our own financial gluttony.

Chilling.

Thiel and his crew have talked about wanting the US to have a population of 100 million. They don't want a permanent underclass of unemployed people, they want a permanent underclass of dead people.

That aside digital surveillance prison already exists. Google, Meta, Amazon etc. know enough about their users to build a complete day-by-day activity list with high accuracy. Phones listen constantly, Windows logs all you do on their servers, the dystopian tech is already there. Whet most dystopian predictions missed is that instead of endless rows of Secret Service officers watching you, it's the advertisers who want to milk your attention.

Dystopian police state will start when police starts offering money for reporting crimes. Then all this data will pour into their hands, neatly tagged, packaged and sold.

What they are more likely building is regional processing centers. Meaning most people have a tablet, a laptop, and a phone. All with ram, silicone, memory, and resources that sit the majority of the time. The phone gets more usage. But what if those tools were access points to a larger computer that did the processing for you? What if meant instead of having a stronger chip on your phone you just had sufficient speed of transfer for a larger computer to do the processing?

That would reduce the production costs of everything. Be easier to manage the supply chain, require fewer rare earth minerals

AND they can control/monitor all of the throughput? Security against enemies.

Please, > 20 years ago, aurora colorado, built a license plate tracking system they installed in most light controlled intersections. Specifically with the intention of tracking every vehicle within city limits. There is no paranoia there, all these jurisdictions say this shit out loud, and have for decades. All the police marketers trumpet they'll be able to track people with facial recognition, out loud, and for years. Efficacy aside, they're drooling over it. Out loud, in marketing materials, statehouses, and newspapers for years upon years.

You're talking about a colo. Larger companies will have their own datacenters dedicated to their own services.

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Totally agree, based on visible trends so far. What HAS this keystone kleptocracy actually pulled-off without bungling it comically? Thank god they're morons; had they really been the self-made successes they all claim, this would have been a theocratic hell like VP Pence seemed to want.

Then a few people in high places can really exploit it to further their whatever agenda.

They're already like that though. Which is fine. Let them burn out.

The only issue Pandora's box is open and there's no way to close it.

If open AI or one of its competitors go out someone will step up and fill the void.