PhD 2529 | Explore | Scratchpad
Forward-looking notes and asides
1) Aside: On the ideological force of algorithms
Because algorithms as used widely, really are tools of ideological persuasion — even domination. So surely it's legitimate to propose fighting back?
2) Aside: "The S in LLM stands for Security"
:-)
I actually, publicly laughed. This turned my day from desultory so far to absolutely magical.
And yet I remember how these people have also brought about Suchir Balaji's terrifying demise. It's true, folks: Silicon Valley are the mirror-mafia to Putin's Russian state:
3) Note: On settling to be a millionaire
From my #journal app just this minute:
'someone just asks me to settle for being a millionaire
i answer: "sure, but the us, sweden, and ireland
just three … you only have yourselves to blame
you couldn't stop an outlier if it were a mosquito to be swatted, half-drunk with a good wine it had no right to imbibe
oh
and even with these three, the entity has the ikea or scott trust template: that's an absolutely immovable condition
it always was, always will be
so any investors must get their heads round this as non-negotiable and then use their undoubted brains to work out a compatible business model"
basically, this ... can we move forwards now?'
Footnote to the above, written some time after:
A brief comment in relation to this: if you are prepared to sign up to a fundamental change of security doctrine as described below (ie from #totalsurveillance to #secrecypositive), then we can talk now, and deliver a #neuro set of projects for both #cvl and #mil. But you must absolutely sign up to this fundamental shift ... and heroes of the sky would be a great place to start, for sure ...
https://niokvinnor.com/phd/summary
Also relevant:
4) Note: On money’s limitations
I think we're realising something important here. The acquisition of extreme wealth is not a good measure of human worth.
Money doesn't work as a measure of such value. Even if it once did to an extent — I'm unclear about this also, tbh — it now indicates nothing but the ability and capacity to access power through a noblesse oblige which is anything but noble.
God protect our young minds and impressionable souls from going down this route as an example to be followed.
Still. At least we know the size and shape of the enemy. And that's half the battle, always. Isn't it?
• https://gb2earth.com/hunch/loopholes | on #loopholes and the #artofwar
Further reading:
5) Aside: “Mil’s Theorem”
In an almost infinitely malleable digital world, if I – with my limited intellect and financial resources – can imagine a brand-new way of committing crime, loopholes (legal societal harm; also called “zemiology”), and other ways of acting in bad faith, someone with far more resources and intelligence will already have imagined and implemented the same.
Ergo, in order to prove that what I imagine in digital exists, I only have to imagine it, I don’t need to evidence it in more traditional ways.
The implications of “Mil’s Theorem” are that human imagination and creativity drive the deepest kind of digital. Machine equivalents, meanwhile, only produce more of the same, though massively it’s true.
6) Aside: The Temptations of the Trip-Switch
Tbh, and since we're on the subject of Silicon Valley's predilection for all things Chinese, this was also Musk's tools of #surveillancetech choice and related in respect of the retrospective tracking of the #cybertruck incident not long ago.
Anything anyone can do at the trip of a switch is temptation in the hands of the powerful. And so therefore it's clear: power only exists in its exerting (see Foucault if you don't believe me ...!).
You give someone the right to trip-switch you, however benevolent they may initially seem, one day they surely will.
7) Note: And so why not use the same tools for defending democracy …?
… well … primarily because the consequences of total-surveillance and surveillance-tech architectures [https://gb2earth.com/pgtps/genesis | https://www.sverige2.earth/activities] — including all modern operating systems by design and purposeful, bottom-line intention — have been, over the years, to inhibit Western democracy’s counter-intelligence, counter-terrorist, and local and global law-enforcement professionals from developing and enhancing their collective capabilities to think half as freely on the biggest of occasions as a truly creative extreme criminality continues to [https://gb2earth.com/primacy].
A human extreme criminality is, after all, the strongest link in crime. Why can’t equally flesh & blood citizens be considered the strongest link in crimefighting and related? Why do we necessarily have to be judged the weakest link in security — something to be replaced by Big Tech’s machines at the earliest opportunity?
Why not propose platforms like this?
https://gb2earth.com/terrorism
Or technologies such as the H/M AGI described briefly in the video below [https://www.secrecy.plus/hmagi | https://gb2earth.com/hmagi], which, similarly, I proposed a few years ago to AWS and its government partners, and as always found myself in the position of being firmly and finally rejected.
8) Note: Uber’s playbook to dismantle city and municipal governance (ie politics), nine years on … updated and expanded by Musk and Co
I've been wondering about this unrelenting chatter from #bigtech and a wider #siliconvalley about the equally inevitable requirement to build environment-dismantling #datacentres that consume so much electricity they apparently need their own nuclear power stations.
This, in truth, is what seems to me to be happening:
1. Build out of a failing #socialnetwork #businessmodel what we could call a parallel state with all its own utilities.
This would look something like what follows:
- A parallel electricity grid.
- A parallel space and aviation network.
- A parallel telecommunications network (#starlink for example: so as to then be able to pull it on friends who become too ambitious and actually aim to win their wars).
- A parallel security and espionage network.
- Take control of the keys to nuclear-weapon launching.
- Take control of government procurement to benefit one's own corporations.
- Bully the world in order to invade further virgin forests (#greenland is just one case of this) for future raw materials needs.
2. Detonate our belief in the point of the #ruleoflaw:
- Become so wealthy that mere nation-state economies are dwarfed: this, therefore, means their legislatures too.
- Acquire via espionage corporations (#palantir is one case in the #uk) access to our most detailed and intimate medical records, as a future way of attacking and shaming publicly those who might foolishly choose to tell inconvenient truths.
- Implement across all devices an #ai-driven capability to surveill every user's activities, whatever the operating systems they may wish to employ.
Because #generativeai was never scoped and designed to deliver pretty pictures and text for overburdened classroom teachers. Rather, it was a weapon to surveill billions of enemies: these being the enemies NOT of the STATE but of the #mafiastate which #siliconvalley has been carefully and stealthily constructing and constituting all these decades.
We don't need more utilities. They're still legislated and regulated by our states. These #techoligarchs, meantime, do need their parallel universe so they can replace it with their own rules.
No?
Here's a previous example of the #playbook:
Governance by app and the end of politics
[...]
A more apt understanding of Uber’s ambitions is that the company wants to be involved in city governance – fashioning the new administrative capacities of urban environments. Rather than follow government rules, like any other utility, Uber wants a visible hand in creating urban policy, determining how cities develop and grow, eventually making the city itself a platform for the proliferation of “smart”, data-based systems.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/15/is-ubers-ultimate-goal-the-privatisation-of-city-governance | on #uber's plans nine years ago to privatise all city and municipal governance, via The Guardian newspaper | because, just like #chatgpt, #uber was never a utility to help us all: instead, just another #datacrawling platform to entrench even more the powerful in #siliconvalley
