What if I don’t want to be on my best behavior?

Evil fuk.

Ok Keith, let's test that theory on politicians, bureaucrats, judges, and law enforcement personnel first, to see if Ai can keep them on their "best behavior" at their jobs, before we start talking talking about what it can do to the citizens it a free society.

Why is it that the worst people on the planet... think it's their job to micro-rule over everyone else?

Shouldn't they take part of that energy to get their own life straight?

Law abiding citizens do not need surveillance to ensure their morality, and criminals won't care who is watching.

Why punish all law abiding people because the repeat offenders that commit most all of the crime.

I think we need to ship all those who are unwilling or unable to participate in a polite society to some place outside the country.

Remove the problem, and none of us need to be watched.

Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and SciFi author, wrote about the disaster of what he termed ubiquitous law enforcement (in, for example, A Fire Upon the Deep, or perhaps a sequel, I don't recall). He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "cyberspace".

Vinge believed that on-going advances in computer hardware and software would almost inevitably lead to surveillance so complete and intrusive that privacy and freedom would become impossible. He spoke about this at conferences as well as writing about it in his novels.

Scenario 4: Ubiquitous Law Enforcement

Unlike the previous scenarios, this one does not correspond to one of the hardware curves. It does assume that hardware improvements continue for at least a few years more. A workable version of this scenario also assumes some spectacular (and malignant) improvements in software, but overall the situation in this scenario is not at all mysterious.

1. Vernor Vinge, presentation at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, 1996. Here is a redrawing of my main graphic.
2. John Walker, "The Digital Imprimatur" http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur

The "these people are stupid" flair isn't accurate. Our American population are the stupid ones for allowing psychos like Larry to ascend to, and stay in leadership roles.

One example of our stupid population is "Plaid" who now brag over 8,000 financial institutions let them access US citizens banking details.

This company blatantly captures user credentials and the banks pop up several approvals to the user that the user accepts all responsibilities for their stupidity of handing over their banking access.

Clown.

Would love a DEW pointed at his house.

pure evil