In Ashburn VA near Dulles Airport there is a village made to look exactly like Palo Alto. Megalithic Data Centers, myriad grey IC spook buildings without ID, corporations and MIC tech contracting companies and corporate housing neighborhoods gouge the land here that was once farmland whence I was a wee lad. Its sobering. The Dulles Parkway is full of intel agencies and aerospace HQs. Its as if the Deep State had set up a “Neu Berlin” replete with Albert Speer’s grandiose architecture all done up modern.
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A further thought occurred, that possibly the AI threat is much more mundane in nature. Picture a contrived scarcity scenario, where rationing is in place for internet access (in order to live) and rationed energy for domestic/industrial energy requirements. Create an expanding “outgroup”, (not unlike those of post Weimar and the Covid Scamdemic) who could be vilified and scapegoated for any scarcity at all, including UBI, available CDBCs, food, transport, healthcare etc etc… Of course the scarcity would actually be root caused, at least for energy, by ever expanding data centres for AI and AGI operations. But would those remaining within the reducing in group of social engineering care if the “unperson” is allowed (or even actively culled) to wither on the vine and outside of the systems of support, as long as the “ingroup” continue to receive a shrinking modicum of services and life supports?
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