Keep in mind that Larry Ellison is fundamentally incapable of caring whether or not “citizens will be on their best behavior.” The only reason he would say a thing such as this is because he sees an opportunity to make money from such a system.
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.
- Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)
I think this is great advice for billionaires in general.
You have to be extremely sick to become one.
Yeah, that would make any kind of political speech practically impossible. Activism? Nope, out of the question. Creative artistic expression? Better watch out for the thought police.
We don’t need “best behavior,” that would be so incredibly boring.
His out of touch suggestion is completely incompatible with democracy.
The United States already prosecutes many activists as terrorists, or at least tries to charge them. All this would do is turn that up to eleven.
100%
Here’s a very recent example of just that.
I vote we test it on Billionaires first. Especially their financial activities.
I’m trying to think of which robot dystopia/apocalypse this most closely resembles.
1984 meets Skynet
THX 1138
To increase efficiency consumption is being regulated.
Minority Report maybe
Right? There are probably hundreds of novels theorizing about how this turns out. Most of them unflattering I would guess, based on however many I have read
Person of Interest, no? That’s exactly what that was. 😅
Sprawl?
No fictional dystopia needed. China already performs mass surveillance and has systems in place to enforce desirable behaviours in citizens. This is just another evolutionary phase.
I agree wholeheartedly Larry so let’s start with monitoring the sex dungeon where you keep the abducted kids locked up, you fucking bootlicking Orwellian psychopath.
Never liked this guy. And Oracle DB has always kinda sucked.
And that’s their only “good” product.
The rest is utter garbageware, designed for one purpose: to check boxes on RFPs.
Java was nice for the time. Same with MySQL.
MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was also the original developer of Java. Oracle acquired Sun. So I’d say any niceness there is in spite of, not because of, Oracle.
Also… Java’s still pretty nice :-)
Yeah I heard it runs on 3 billion devices lol
I take comfort in the fact that Oracle hasn’t been able to release new products. They’re basically a legal team wrapped around their existing software.
That said, fuck this guy.
The post above this one in my feed was from the onion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Great Potential In AI
This is the kind of shit Amazon drivers already have to put up with. Remember hearing about how their singing can alarm the AI driver facing camera watchdog? If they’re not willing to go on strike to get rid of surveillance in the work place then it’s all too likely the average citizen won’t do anything about it either.
…what is wrong with singing in their car???
Them moving their mouth too much made the AI think they were distracted driving and would dock them for it.
Maybe a vast human being network can ensure billionaires stop existing. Let’s do that one instead.
Guillotine
Can ensure parasites are on their best behaviour.
If those are your views on privacy, mister, then let’s start by you giving everyone access to your personal messages, unedited or unrestricted.
Fuck this fascist! We need to eat them ASAP. Or just bury the useless flesh. Either way, they shouldn’t come back from this…
