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Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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Fascist fuck
Hypothetically, if Larry was eaten, would other billionaires be on their best behavior and stop positing fascist control mechanisms?
That's a testable hypothesis.
You go right ahead. I'm not eating any of those assholes. They're only held together by hatred and bitterness. I'd assume the taste would be influenced by that.
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And now you know why everyone hates Oracle.
Oh you mean One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison?
Not heard that before, and I'm old. 🤣😂
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We don't need citizens to be on their best behavior, we need millionaires and billionaires to be on their best behavior.
WAH-hoo!
Dude looks like he's one line of coke away from a heart attack...
He looks like Tim Allen got in a fight with a hornet nest
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Yeah, and a simple wooden construction with a movable metal blade keeps billionaires on their best behaviour. Or at least it did in the 18th century.
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This guy needs more luigi in his life
By all accounts, Larry is a piece of shit.
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
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Literally 1984.
He can keep dreaming. People are angry and will fucking eat him alive. I can feel the anger in the air.
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But...we got video evidence of someone already having murdered a ceo. It didn't seem to stop the ceo from getting shot tho, remarkable. 🤔
'citizens will be on their best behavior'
Compliant. He means compliant.
He's afraid of the masses.
I wonder why
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I used to think I was heading toward abject poverty as our bs systems were going into more bs but now Im getting more hopeful. Maybe I will be dead or in prison.
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Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing 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.
they just can't help saying the quiet part out loud
We need another Luigi for this asshole.
Sounds like someones vying for next in line.
Somebody read or watched 1984 and thought that's a wonderful idea. Or is he just trying to cozy up to the Chinese government? Or the drugs long term effects are kicking in? Who knows.
These people are fundamentally narcissistic and think they personally know not only how the world works, but also how it ought to work. You can see the somewhat innocent version of that in Apple's "you're holding it wrong" fiasco.
That kind of arrogance is kind of normal if you're a very intelligent teenager, since most of the people around you are indeed less intelligent than you, but most people get their reality check pretty soon and grow up. Business ghouls like Larry, however, never got their reality check. They managed to become successful early in life and still operate under that childish mindset.
That dude was never on his best behavior. And now he wants to punish anyone that is going to out live him.
it is an attitude that happens to many rich old people; how dare you live past them and enjoy it.
There's a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.
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what he really means is that "me and my buddies are fucking everyone else and we are afraid that there will be retaliation so we need mass surveillance"
including YOU and other leeches?!
ya. didn't think so.
One
Raging
Asshole
Called
Larry
Ellison
He's one of the owners of X, he and like 20 other people invested with Musk
Larry and his ultra-rich megawank friends can all go first and show us the way
Print licensing agreements for all oracle products and shove them up your ass
Funny thing about "best behavior" is that it's defined by whoever is in charge of the venue you're in, whether it's society ingeneral or a social media community. Somebody always dictates what's okay or not okay to say.