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Our reading
With enough data you do not need to send soldiers to control a country; data colonialism is coming
Their wordswhen you have enough data you don't need to send soldiers in order to control a country
Their wordsB times C times D equals R which means biological knowledge multiplied by computing power multiplied by data equals the ability to hack humans
Our reading
Humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls but hackable animals
Their wordswe humans should get used to the idea we are no longer mysterious Souls we are now packable animals
Their wordsthe higher you are in the hierarchy the more closely you will be watched
Our reading
Within a couple of decades no human will be capable of understanding the financial system
Their wordsin a couple of decades the number of humans capable of understanding the financial system will be exactly zero
Their wordsthe twin revolutions of info tech and biotech are now giving politicians and business people the means to create heaven or hell but the Philosopher's are having trouble conceptualizing what the new heaven and the new hell will look like
Their wordsif we allow such an arms race to develop in fields like AI and bioengineering it doesn't really matter who wins the arms race the loser will be humanity
Their wordsthere is no contradiction between nationalism and globalism because nationalism isn't about hating foreigners nationalism is about loving your compatriots
Their wordswe are now living in a world in which war kills fewer people than suicide and gunpowder is far less dangerous to your life than sugar
Their wordsthe global order is now like a house that everybody inhabits and nobody repairs it can hold on for a few more years but if we continue like this it will collapse
Their wordsthe real line in the sand is when biometric sensors become ubiquitous and it's happening and the data starts coming from within the body
Their wordsnow it resigned its role of leader of the world and it openly says we don't care about anybody except ourselves and that's not a leader you don't follow a leader whose motto is me first