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Crixcyon's avatar

I guess we can infer from all the tech terrorism that they don't intend to shut off the power anytime soon. Then none of this crap would be worth a plug nickel.

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esc's avatar

they don't intend to shut off the power for the data centres, that's for sure.

but they're developing tiered access structures across the west, meaning you might not have any power.

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Tony Broomfield's avatar

What if the process was inverted and we the public built gateways for our governments and leaders, and which ones to trust and which should be excluded from any future positions in government or top management levels

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Just talking to folks about local gov is more effective.....and cannot be as easily derailed by bots and trolls. I can see why they do not want us to speak freely to each other as a prime directive.

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Greta Good's avatar

I think we need the world to remain without such a machine, because however nice and well-meaning the operator may be, the machine offers too much temptation to bad actors, who are in any case likely those who are currently driving its construction.

God help us.

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Dollyboy's avatar

How easy do you think it's going to be to physically destroy the architecture?

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Bina Brissie's avatar

EMP? Dirty bomb? Oreshnik?

All digital ownership of property, bank accounts, your emails and contacts, ... gone in one instance. Even a cut undersea cable could disrupt life a lot but the data would still be at the centre and mirrored elsewhere, I presume, but it could take a long time to access it again.

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grahamlyons's avatar

Welcome to the digital prison of The New World Order, a universal fascist dystopia, the "death cult" 's ultimate wet dream, characterised by satanic inversion. Rule by corporations ("dead entities").

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Bina Brissie's avatar

I still don't understand what world governance means for people living in a subsistence economy with limited cash and no bank account. Is this digital system only for the Have somethings and not for the Have nothings? They don't count but may still get vaxxed perhaps? Is living in the wilderness the only alternative to this system?

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Greta Good's avatar

Another alternative is the black market. Top down planned economies don't have a great track record.

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Bina Brissie's avatar

Yes, that would arise fast. Back to trading of stuff and having some currency like what cigarettes or booze used for in earlier hard times.

But I find the idea to tokenize everything on this planet when some people aren't even contacted yet and live by themselves on islands or in the jungle, quite incomprehensible. There are still communities that do not partake much in banking and paper trails. Do they all register their kids? Will Pygmies be included? With a background in Anthro and eyes on independent ethnic groups with little contact to civilisations, e.g. in the steppe, I try to understand these concepts.

Elon says, everyone will have robots. Who is everyone? I am wondering whether there are refuges somewhere in the middle of nowhere and where would the boundaries be? Maybe one could live on the edge if one wants to be left alone?

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Greta Good's avatar

The idea of tokenising everyone on the planet is megalomanic. The technocracy being engineered is being brought into existence by manipulation, subterfuge, and coercion; it lacks the foundations of consent, natural law and due process: it is the antithesis of Magna Carta and social contract, and its defects apply to all people everywhere, both to the inception of the system and to its continued legitimacy.

There is a further problem: robots and all the rest of the technocratic dream presuppose at least the current level of division of labour, which is founded on a large population, a certain level of education, social mobility, and an economic and legal system which enables the whole to function. Turning on the end state technocracy will destroy the civilisation which spawned it and raises the question whether the technocracy could then sustain itself even in ossified form.

The system is authoritarian in conception and will I think turn fully totalitarian to preserve itself. Perhaps some primitive groups might be allowed as part of natural wild areas, but I think the example of people living happily outside the system would mostly be seen as a threat.

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Kaylene Emery's avatar

Appreciation and blessings from Sydney Australia.

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SSBN734's avatar

Regarding bitcoin. A single or small group of miners adhering to OFAC or some other sanctioning list does not inhibit transactions from being included in the block chain. If F2Pool won't carry the transaction, it might get delayed for ten minutes if F2Pool resolves the next block but that transaction will be in the next block (or the next or the next) when resolved by a different miner.

There is much of bitcoin that has been sullied by KYC on exchanges but there is much that has not. It's not a panacea but it's also far from lost.

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