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Jay-LeeCasual Contributor
It was 1980 and I was 24. I started telling people "they" were spying on people with cameras on satellites in the sky.
They told me I was delusional and diagnosed me as paranoid schizophrenic.
Now I tell people "we" are monitoring what people say and do online. Now the say, "Tell us something new."
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deshiftSenior Contributor
You should read a book called "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" By Shoshana Zhuboff
They aren't just spying on us, the AI catered content can alter our predicted behaviours, which is then sold on the Behaviour Futures Exchange. You. could probably buy tendies to alter peoples behaviour to what you want, and then buy content to shove down their gullet.
Someone from a big Aussie investment firm such as (deleted) would know things like this.
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deshiftSenior Contributor
@Jay-Lee
Well, that didn't last long
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Jay-LeeCasual Contributor
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MaceySenior Contributor
I thinks what's amazing is how you were saying that in 1980 but the book 1984 was foUr years away.
Some people are so psychic like u
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