"The cutting edge of state empowerment technology in 2024 is a system that can do the following:
Complete government surveillance of all electronic activity within a territory, and real-time 24/7 location data on all cell phones.
Use the data from #1 to assign every person in the territory a score.
Automatically kill them and their family when their score crosses a threshold.
Lower the threshold as desired, to use up a target quantity of munitions."
"AI-powered airborne death robots"
I've personally imagined before a system created from the intersection of the following realities:
Massive widespread surveillance and record-keeping
An ever increasing body of laws and regulations so large and complicated that nobody actually knows the extent of, a la "three Felonies a Day".
Artificial intelligence systems that look for patterns.
Combine this with the story from OSD 267 regarding identification of gun owners from credit card data.
A cell phone, when called, basically transmits its presence in response to a "wake-up" signal from the nearest tower. This happens before it even rings. Anyone who remembers the old days where your stereo makes a buzzing noise just before your phone rings? That's what's going on.
The result is a terrifying situation that is basically "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime, and while we're at it, lets just have a drone drop a radio-guided Hellfire on him."
You've been identified as a high probability bad actor based on an algorithmic system that compares your lifetime of activities and social connections against a superprosecutor's understanding of the entirety of International, Federal, State, and local laws and regulations. You're a known gun owner even though there's no registry, so you're a "high risk" target. The system has all of your vital data as well as the ability to track your phone and vehicle, which can generate a real-time location, and feed it to a high endurance drone carrying weaponry that can home in on your phone's signal. Mercifully, the Hellfire is capable of supersonic speed, so you won't even hear it coming. Just "boom".
This can also be fully automated so the conversation can just be: "Kill the guy with the highest score" and the system will do it and GPT will type up a very good press release explaining why.
The Social Credit System is in play. Biden's Executive order for his new shiny Red Flag Department - just like Eastern Germany before the fall of the wall. Rat on your neighbor - you'll get some special privilege or dispensation.
Follow the advice of John Prine in "Spanish Pipedream"
Personally, I got a Faraday bag. It is reassuring to know my body is known only to my creator from time to time.
"The cutting edge of state empowerment technology in 2024 is a system that can do the following:
Complete government surveillance of all electronic activity within a territory, and real-time 24/7 location data on all cell phones.
Use the data from #1 to assign every person in the territory a score.
Automatically kill them and their family when their score crosses a threshold.
Lower the threshold as desired, to use up a target quantity of munitions."
"AI-powered airborne death robots"
I've personally imagined before a system created from the intersection of the following realities:
Massive widespread surveillance and record-keeping
An ever increasing body of laws and regulations so large and complicated that nobody actually knows the extent of, a la "three Felonies a Day".
Artificial intelligence systems that look for patterns.
Combine this with the story from OSD 267 regarding identification of gun owners from credit card data.
A cell phone, when called, basically transmits its presence in response to a "wake-up" signal from the nearest tower. This happens before it even rings. Anyone who remembers the old days where your stereo makes a buzzing noise just before your phone rings? That's what's going on.
The result is a terrifying situation that is basically "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime, and while we're at it, lets just have a drone drop a radio-guided Hellfire on him."
You've been identified as a high probability bad actor based on an algorithmic system that compares your lifetime of activities and social connections against a superprosecutor's understanding of the entirety of International, Federal, State, and local laws and regulations. You're a known gun owner even though there's no registry, so you're a "high risk" target. The system has all of your vital data as well as the ability to track your phone and vehicle, which can generate a real-time location, and feed it to a high endurance drone carrying weaponry that can home in on your phone's signal. Mercifully, the Hellfire is capable of supersonic speed, so you won't even hear it coming. Just "boom".
This can also be fully automated so the conversation can just be: "Kill the guy with the highest score" and the system will do it and GPT will type up a very good press release explaining why.
Welcome to the future.
Person of Interest was a documentary...Change my Mind
It's a black mirror episode and we live it.
The Social Credit System is in play. Biden's Executive order for his new shiny Red Flag Department - just like Eastern Germany before the fall of the wall. Rat on your neighbor - you'll get some special privilege or dispensation.
Follow the advice of John Prine in "Spanish Pipedream"
Personally, I got a Faraday bag. It is reassuring to know my body is known only to my creator from time to time.