Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'

DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lawnmowers can be a piece of shit too.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lawnmowers have the bitchiest machine spirits.

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• fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh yeah, I consider him to be the worst billionaire of em all, even “trumping” that muskrat…

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oracle, the official company of “Look, we’re developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you’ve activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha”

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    • Madrigal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought it was Oracle, the company of “our products are designed for one purpose alone: to tick boxes on RFPs.”

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      • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean yeah but that’s far less sinister than all their licensing horseplay

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