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 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.
If those are your views on privacy, mister, then let’s start by you giving everyone access to your personal messages, unedited or unrestricted.
Maybe a vast human being network can ensure billionaires stop existing. Let’s do that one instead.
Guillotine
Old dirt bag techno fascist.
I vote we test it on Billionaires first. Especially their financial activities.
The post above this one in my feed was from the onion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Great Potential In AI
1984 was not meant to be an instruction manual you twat
Torment Nexus shit right here
It’s all fun and games until said system is used against you either by hackers, insider with mallicious intent or the goverment.
Albeit said A.I systems could also be used to get rid of billionares by simply exposing tax loopholes, tracking illegal transactions and by finding answers from any leaked data which will be more plentiful when such systems gets in to place.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
This guy read Foucault’s discussion about the panopticon and took it as instructions. Ugh.
The panopticon was originally designed as a prison, so effectively Ellison is saying, “wouldn’t the world be great if everyone were in prison?”
I’m trying to think of which robot dystopia/apocalypse this most closely resembles.
Minority Report maybe
Person of Interest, no? That’s exactly what that was. 😅
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
Sprawl?
“The AI has long since exterminated black people, bars, cumin, and parks, yet it continues to recommend that we arrest anyone who purchases flavor aid and chicken. Barbecues, as we knew them, are as dead as the root of its prejudice against them. On the bright side, white people have never been more free to do cocaine, the economy booster™”
Relying on AI to provide a naughty list is a horrific idea.
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.
