This would be useless, unless there is a treaty equivalent to the NPT (Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons). This is a case of the prisoner dilemma, where one side doing the proper thing can get them fu*ked if the other party don't collaborate. The US having a responsible law that penalizes or outlaws AI in the US, it would place itself into a grave strategic disadvantage (possibly permanently) if China, North Korea or other nations keep investing into creating a super intelligence, having absolute cyber dominance over the US.

I think there is a legitimate concern on the alignment problem in AI that isn't being treated seriously and it could be absolutely disastrous if not regulated soon, but as I said previously, it would require all nations to agree to it and act responsibly. Unfortunately the current political climate from the existing rulers, makes be believe it that there are no adults in the room. They are all monkeys with guns.

This Modus Operandi was documented by the human walrus in his book "The room where it happened", where Trump purposefully created an international scandal with Ukraine just to flood the news cycle with his imbecility to request publicly a quid pro quo to Ukraine, blocking the congress approved aid, conditioning the aid only if Zelensky would send Trump dirt on Biden's son.

The book shows the actual backstory to that, Trump wanted to flood the news cycle to cover up his daughter Ivanka's scandal in using personal email accounts for confidential government communications, which would make his attack on Hillary hypocritical.

So yeah, it is a confirmed behavior. The willingness to pull the whole nation into a geopolitical crisis to manipulate the news cycle so they stop talking about what he or his family is doing is just outrageous.

We are living in the timeline where Trump, I mean Biff, got the sports almanac. (In fact, Bob Gale said that he and Zemeckis envisioned Biff turning the nation into a trashy Atlantic city, based on Trump. And this was 1989.)

He would announce a executive order to rename the history books to rename Amerigo to Trump. Subsequently he would order to rename every mention of America to Trump. It wouldn't be the colony of "British America", it would be The British Trump. Which it would become the United States of Trump. And the American continent would be Trump's continent. The Maga nuts would then retcon his origins by using this "historical record" as proof of Trump timelessness as Trump is in the history books since the 1500s And in turn worship Trump as a God.

Lol the origin story for all those bugs trying to eat the cat were originally bacteria genetically engineered to eat up plastic and garbage. Which then mutated and evolved to eat all organic matter lol

Absolutely unrelated. Nigel does a pure chemical experiment. These guys modified yeast with genetic engineering so it can digest plastic. If you think Nigel's experiment is novel or revolutionary, you are probably still in middle school.

Btw, you don't seem to understand how "the surveillance economy" actually warmed the pot of frogs, which is already scorching hot. Privacy was a given, almost religiously protected. It was common sense. It was our right. How did we lose the war against cookies, supercookies, cellphone trilateration, cellphone gps, cars with gps, from private smtp and pop servers to everything at google, yahoo and outlook? From federated networks like Jabber to giving every bit of behavioral data plus phone numbers, addresses, credit card data, banking information to a freaking single company. Would you have ever imagined that people would willingly PURCHASE a 24/7 listening device to install at home, just because it can mimic a human voice? And then willingly purchase a 24/7 surveillance camera for your front door, streaming to a corporation where you have no control over it? Why the decentralized internet devolved into a bunch of centralized wallgarden that has so many behavioral and personal data that can build a forensically accurate psychological profile that can be used to predict your real sexual orientation, religion and political affiliation by analyzing your facebook posts, likes and the chronemics on the swipe, even if you dont ever mention any of those those topics, which has been already weaponized to allow Trump win the first presidency by Cambridge Analytica. Why this dystopian scenario has became *already* a reality, was it forced upon us? No. We adopted it willingly. Why? Because it was "convenient", and because SaaS with an advertising business model was the only business model that enabled frictionless customer acquisition. We, humanity, sold our soul to save some pennies, and in the process we destroyed what made the internet great. And you really think that reading brainwaves will be a step too far? You lack imagination. Apple's AR goggles are already tracking eye movements with the internal cameras, and thats already so convenient because it replaces a cursor, a joystick, a virtual wand or your freaking fingers. It knows were you are looking and it selects it, it is the closest thing to reading your mind without electrodes in your brain. There has been many robust studies on tracking involuntary microsaccadic movements to extract covert attention, cognitive shifts and access our working memory, understanding where the subject's internal attention is focused *before they consciously move or act*. (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2235533100) We already had a startup called Emotiv that promised a neural interface, in the form of a cool EEG helmet to interact with the computers, the founder had a Ted Talk long time ago. She was ahead of her time, she demoed a game that detected the users emotion, and the sky changed color to match its emotion. Eventually EEG helmets will be also packaged as a "convenient" way to interface with VR, games or social interaction or for "empathetic communication", while secretly monitoring the microsaccades and the eeg of our frontal and temporal lobes to the product placement, or the success of an ad, changing colors in real time until they detect we liked it, and to order us a pizza before we were even conscious that we wanted one. We are royally fked. It has 100% chance of success, because we already drank the coolaid.

"Who would be carrying listening and tracking devices willingly, let alone purchasing them so the government can track us 24/7, of course it is nonsense." - probably you in 1990, holding a pager.

You should check out Autonomi (formerly known as SafeNetwork) by Maidsafe. They launched their stable version not long ago, which was quite an achievement considering the project has been developing since 2006. It is an original project that was probably the source of inspiration for ipfs and filecoin. Autonomi is blockchain-less (it has its own consensus system based on "close groups"), self-encryption, anonymous (on the overlay data network), permanent file storage (pay once to upload, without recurrent fees to keep them online), and natively quantum resistant (adopted ML-KEM-768 and ML-DSA-65 in the transport layer, and for data ChaCha20-Poly1305 for self-encryption and Blake3 for the hashing) The community is quite active and several server-less apps and websites are beginning to pop up right now, the most recent one being a movie streaming site on it. The network is quite young, but I think that if adoption grows, it could replace the need of AWS or any cloud service.

Well, that doesn't seem to be practical does it? A P2P network that can't take 30TB is just a toy, not infrastructure

The network in Silicon Valley was directly inspired by a real world project by MaidSafe (the network is called "Autonomi"), Mike Judge said so in a conference. David Irvine, the founder of Maidsafe was a technical advisor of the series.

Hey I wouldn't be complaining, I would see this as a great opportunity to jailbreak the boss and get myself a raise.

So I guess we will see more tentacles from now on...

The "network" you get from the phones you are mentioning are to the national *intranet*, not the internet. Only the highest hierarchies have access to the real internet via a monitored official Chinese proxy. People who are close to the Chinese border sometimes get some Chinese phone as a contraband with a Chinese SIM card, but those can only be used next to the borders where Chinese towers seep through North Korea. But it is extremely dangerous, if you are caught, you are dead.

You are missing the main fact: North Korea doesn't have internet already. It is self-imposed. It is not just "censored" internet like in China. It is no internet connectivity at all. Only their privileged citizens have access to a nationwide intranet, with curated national sites that looks like it is from the 90s or if you want to watch a soprano singing the national anthem, that type of stuff. But no internet at all.