“YOU’VE BEEN DECEIVED! Black Rock PLANS to End Bitcoin FOREVER!” – Edward Snowden (I guess I have a similar view on things as Snowden.)

4:29

“Whether we’re talking about large language models, Facebook—which I’ve been criticizing from the beginning—has actually been a force for good in this space. Not because they love you, or they love us, or they love me, but because they’re afraid that competitors like OpenAI, which I mentioned, are going to build a structure around them, ring-fencing them in a little plot that they can then tax forever. Facebook doesn’t want to end up there, so they decided to develop tools and give them to everyone else so a monopoly can’t form and be used against them. It’s self-interest more so than altruism, but I still applaud it. I’m no fan of Mark Zuckerberg, but he’s done wonderful things here. I hope he continues. I know it won’t last forever, but for the moment while it does, I’ll welcome the help that we can get.”

This part is connected to one of my posts: Zuckerberg’s Scorched-Earth LLaMA AI Strategy: Zuck Just Messed with the Deep State on AI and the AI Manhattan Project. Snowden said he did something good. I wrote he messed with the deep state’s plans, so we have the same position on that.

7:30

“When they have your transaction history, they have your life history. They know what you read, what you buy, who you send money to, who you support politically, and where your donations go. All of that is available to them. They can infer your thinking and your affiliations. At the NSA, we called this kind of information—information that wasn’t the details of a conversation, not literally reading your texts, but simply knowing that you texted someone—metadata. Under their interpretation, and not mine, it didn’t impact the Fourth Amendment at all because it wasn’t considered a search; it was simply tracking the flow of messages. We called this metadata, which patted out what was your “pattern of life.” Metadata can be plainly described as activity records—similar to what a private investigator would gather by following you around all day. Metadata could be collected automatically by ingesting the world’s internet communications through machines, but someone still had to extract, interpret, and make sense of it. Machine learning models are going to change this. In my opinion, this is already being done; we simply don’t have evidence of it yet. It’s in testing and development stages, and we don’t know how it’s being applied or when it will be truly operational, but it is fantasy to imagine that they’re not doing it.”

I wrote basically the same thing in one of my posts before I even saw this video: In the Age of AI: Full Documentary – Frontline.

“What they forget to mention is that for people who are aware of what is happening in the world, remember one man called Snowden. People may not remember, but what Snowden basically proved is that the CIA and NSA, under program PRISM, recorded everything that was happening on the internet, which in other words was a HUGE AMOUNT OF DATA. I am sure they feed all that data to their AI.”

13:34

“The United States is the only advanced democracy on the planet that I am aware of that does not have a basic privacy law. We have the Fourth Amendment, but that only binds the federal government and doesn’t do anything to protect you against corporations. For 90%, probably 95%, of their work in intelligence nowadays, the government simply goes to corporations and asks them for information, which is an end-run around the Constitution. We have been able to tolerate this, not because we love it, but because we haven’t had a choice. However, we’re running out of time to fix this, and the consequences of ignoring it are about to get much worse. Nobody sees this as Terminator or Skynet; it’s not robots descending from the sky to drag you out of your home. That might come someday, but that’s a long way off. We’re talking about things that are much more banal but much easier to do. We talk about the concentration of power. These politicians, a lot of them probably don’t love that they have to come up on this stage and put on a dog-and-pony show to dance for the crowd that is suddenly much more powerful. The people they’ve always been accountable to are about to get a much tighter hold on the leash—not just of them, but of everyone. The reason the internet feels broken is because it is reflecting a broken world. It’s reflecting the consequences of all these winner-take-all dynamics. It’s reflecting the boundless ambition of these generations of princes, and it has left us with an unfair system, which means an unstable system. Why do I think all of this AI stuff is likely? The reason is that unfair systems produce dissatisfaction and are, therefore, hard to maintain.”

The government doesn’t only go to corporations for information; it also creates corporations to gather information that is protected by the Fourth Amendment, such as Palantir and Peter Thiel, mentioned in my post: The Real Reason the US Wants to Ban TikTok: Palantir & Media Control.

“Palantir, the software company literally named after an evil orb used by dark forces to spy on people. It shouldn’t surprise you that Palantir, founded by the notorious Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, worked with the NSA to create the most comprehensive digital espionage apparatus ever conceived. Palantir was co-created with American spies; one of its earliest investors was the CIA, and the company will not disclose any of its contracts with the government despite making over a billion dollars from these clandestine partnerships.”

I suspected it all a long time ago, only recently finding out what I suspected from many places—that they want to do something with blockchain and probably Bitcoin.

By the way, just my opinion: I really tried to understand blockchain technology and I still don’t really get it. But from what I know and understand, the only real crypto is Bitcoin. I don’t consider any other coin as really important or feasible, since it’s the only one (from what I understand) that has a finite supply. But I don’t fully understand crypto, and I am not giving financial advice, but when I hear about anything serious about crypto, only Bitcoin is being mentioned. Anyway, if they want to do something big, they need a big excuse that can explain everything that is happening.

“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.”

― Aldous Huxley