> Nobody with any sanity whatsoever would honestly suggest that at this point.

They're already using AI to identify military targets.... that's why they blew up a school full of children with cruise missiles, remember?

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Third option: The same person/people who has influence over Trump also has influence over everyone else in the party. That being big donors and foreign powers, mostly.

But in terms of DC politics it's mostly fear of breaking ranks since that'll get you ostracized.
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Except that of course, none of this happened. Read the facts.

You vastly overestimate how far a few hundred millions gets you in the industry that moves several trillions USD in insurable value a month. These massive superyachts are tiny boats are a rounding error for insurance clubs that insure ships that cost billions to tens of billions as a matter of routine by the hundreds. And they do NOT fuck around with ship safety. They blacklist the Master, the Master better learn how to flip burgers real fast.

I should add that in old scenarios where they couldn't do behavioral patterns very well, they still had specific circumstances they could track.

For example, say a specific hard drive model has a known controller logic problem that will manifest in drive just randomly not being recognized on boot any more after a specific amount of time. Imagine something like Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 controller failure, which was well understood to happen in a specific time frame after first start of the drive due to controller logic bug.

Now imagine I'm facebook. I got a tracking cookie that enabled me to see that you did in fact buy this drive on this day. I also got a tracking cookie from a page with build guides that indicates you accessed it the next day.

That means I can push very expensive, very high value data recovery service ads to you within specific time frame when this drive is expected to fail. And you will have a moment of "holy fuck, my drive is gone, my wife's photo album, my kids, my dog, my pet fish!!! Panic! What do I do?"

Go on facebook to ask and... it's right there in your face before you even get to the relevant local group. An ad for a local data recovery service. "Oh my god, thank you facebook! You saved my marriage!!!"

They have done this for a while now. Specifically, they want to get at our revealed preferences before they reveal themselves even to us. The best ad is the ad that makes you go "oh yeah, I actually do need X now, and they're selling it right here. Click!"

They do this through tracking individual behavioral patterns as accurately and as widely as possible, and then matching those patterns to past lessons of what people with similar patterns did.

We're fundamentally biologically determined pattern recognition machines, so as long as you find someone similar enough to us, having similar enough circumstances and past behavioral patterns, data from one's preferences can be used to infer preferences of the other.

UNCLOS article 98. They are the monkeys of the insurance clubs long before they are monkeys of the owner. Owner can stop them from being employed on the boat.

Insurance clubs will stop Master from getting employment in shipping industry. And do, all the time.

Incorrect. Master is legally required to disregard any such orders from the owner.

This is one of the things that can actually get you in trouble internationally, as one international law that tends to actually be applied fairly evenly is the UNCLOS parts about ships in distress.

Articles 39 and 98 are utterly unambiguous here.

This is because it's enforced by insurance clubs. You want the boat to be able to enter ports? Better be in good standing with insurance ports, or your boat a useless boondongle that can't find a berth anywhere. These are the people who can tell national governments and Saudi rulers "no". Run of a mill Western billionaire? You're a bug to these people.

The weirdest part is that even if all the worst things about this were true, it still had nothing to do with Zuck.

This would fall on ship's Master. (Captain for laypeople).

Man discovers that bureaucracy is for the aristocracy with proper connections who cut the red tape, not the plebs who cannot.

News at 11.

Given hat innocent people are necessarily going to get hurt, and a successful surveillance state would be much MUCH worse about that, and that innocent people mistakenly caught up will generally receive better outcomes than innocent people intentionally targeted (e.g. getting charges dismissed etc), then it seems like leveraging the flaws of the system to argue against its creation is definitely the better option.

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It's interesting that the response to less than perfect license plate recognition is to brag about how a total surveillance state is so much easier to implement in Europe.

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I'd almost forgotten about that, but yeah - the audio of the call got posted and it was a very impressive example of human connection and intuition working incredibly well in a high-stakes situation. I dug up a link to the audio, it's very instructive.

Using a machine to sort a list in priority order (triage) might be very handy after all the facts are in, but being able to accurately determine what's going on in a real-world emergency when the person reporting it might be panicked, incoherent, or under duress doesn't strike me as something we can just hand over to an LLM.

The only thing I can infer from your reply is that you do not understand what either (or both) "fascist" and "socialist" mean.

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You're assuming that most politicians care what people want.

That's most important is what the corporations want. The value of a total surveillance state is a great secondary benefit for the fascists currently in power, too. You don't have to imagine being tracked down and harassed, if not outright prosecuted, for protesting or campaigning for the 'wrong team.'

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