Humans behave better when they’re being watched
“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”
Xprize founder says 'humans behave better when they’re being watched' | TechCrunch
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)
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birdwing
in reply to francois • • •PierceTheBubble
in reply to birdwing • • •So it's top-down by default, and if the underclass fights hard enough, they míght get a "trust me bro, this is all data there is, and we certainly didn't destroy any".
birdwing
in reply to PierceTheBubble • • •The Epstein class is corrupt. Only all those that recognise class struggle are legit. That is, those that support the labourers in their opposition against coal and oil industry, against trusts and wage theft. Whether queer or not, the capitalist attempts to pit one against another while they attempt to drown us in the pit of climate collapse. But they too shall fail, as we unite, share, help one another, and bring down the corrupt fascist oligarchs.
Trump should get the treatment of Maduro. All coal, gas, and oil CEOs should be thrown into their own field pits.
fireweed
in reply to francois • • •realityisascammer
in reply to francois • • •Cherry
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in reply to francois • • •Vendetta9076
in reply to francois • • •EntheoNaut
in reply to francois • • •Big brother is watching
Fuck them
FineCoatMummy
in reply to francois • • •The prob, ofc, is that it doesn't matter if YOU think you're doing something wrong. It only matters if someone ELSE thinks you are doing something wrong. Maybe you ahve the wrong religion. Maybe you have the wrong skin color. Maybe you push for democracy in an autocratic system. Maybe you're female in a society that opresses the shit out of women. Or w/e! A million things.
In a globally connected world, there will be someone who hates you and tries to destroy you, no matter WHO you are. No matter HOW much integrity, or HOW decent a human you are.
Also, fuck this guy. I want every moment of his life recorded and live streamed to youtube. If he is doing nothing wrong, he has nothing to hide.
FineCoatMummy
in reply to FineCoatMummy • • •BTW. He's an asshole, and he's wrong about a hell of a lot. But he's not wrong about that.
Which scares me. A whole generation will grow up with constant inescapable surveilence as their normal. They've literally never known anything else.
Kenvexity
in reply to FineCoatMummy • • •surewhynotlem
in reply to Kenvexity • • •kent_eh
in reply to Kenvexity • • •Or smash the surveillance apparatus
humble_boatsman
in reply to francois • • •Eager Eagle
in reply to francois • • •Jul (they/she)
in reply to francois • • •FineCoatMummy
in reply to Jul (they/she) • • •+1. Underrated point. We all need the freedom to make mistakes and learn and grow from them.
On top of this, now we can search through someone's entire life for the worst thing they ever did or said. To use that against them. Maybe they run for political office. Maybe it's to blackmail them for profit or for espionage. Maybe to get back at htem over a slight.
This is why autocrats and tyrannical governments love surveilence. Because it gives them power over those they surveil.
FoundFootFootage78
in reply to francois • • •Cherry
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in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •blargh513
in reply to francois • • •If he thinks privacy is bad, then he can publish every email, text and message he's ever sent/received. Then wear a camera around his neck all the time, never taking it off.
I won't hold my breath on this.
What a dickhole.
RockBottom
in reply to francois • • •willington
in reply to francois • • •So watch the billionaires then. Watch the Epstein class.
No, they want to watch the proles instead.
Anarki_
in reply to francois • • •Maybe, but humans are less likely to socialize and be kind if they know they are being monitored.
Allegedly.
MonkderVierte
in reply to francois • • •discouragement of exercising rights by threats of legal sanctions
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in reply to francois • • •If that were the case then people would be so well behaved considering that people post everything to social media nowadays.
Or maybe this psychopathic piece of shit knows HE would behave if he was being monitored again proving that every accusation is really just a confession?
CultLeader4Hire
in reply to francois • • •jwt
in reply to francois • • •FineCoatMummy
in reply to jwt • • •+1. I think what it does, is enforce conformity. Even without authoritarians, there is still a form of tyranny from group pressure. Ppl become less willing to oppose the majority under total surveilence.
Sometimes, the majority gets things right. Other times, not so much. History is filled with examples. We need room for our MLK Jrs, our Ghandis, our Schindlers, to oppose the norms.
Jason2357
in reply to FineCoatMummy • • •MrKoyun
in reply to francois • • •Archimedes
in reply to MrKoyun • • •butsbutts
in reply to francois • • •captainlezbian
in reply to francois • • •There are things outside morality that are subject to shame and judgement. But also freedom can be defined in the ability to make the choices others would like you not to. Mass surveillance aims to enable punishment of freedom.
And beyond all that, philosophically, there is no virtue without the capacity for vice. Integrity is often described as what you do when nobody's watching.
Oh and this mass surveillance is already seriously fucking with everyone's heads. So many people are living increasingly performatively. Between mass surveillance and social media it's becoming more and more normal to feel this shame and self consciousness that impairs the ability to just live.
lightnsfw
in reply to francois • • •BubbleGumDaisy1984
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in reply to francois • • •HasturInYellow
in reply to francois • • •You children will grow to love the panopticon. They will learn their place and never question it, even in private, because there is no private anymore. They will never have any original thoughts or conversations because those lead to crimes. If you don't want to commit crimes, then why are you not repeating the norms of the society we have created for you? Clearly you are formenting some criminal plot.
Against the wall citizen!
Logh
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