Organizing some thoughts, might not go anywhere.
1. Of course AI is a tool. The problem is that the full-scale tool is EXCLUSIVELY in the hands of demons, who are using it for demonic purposes. Anyone can set up their own inference engine on their own computer, but ordinary people don’t have unfettered access to ALL the web ALL the time through ALL the nodes.
2. This is directly parallel to the naive arguments made by gun fanciers, who claim that an armed population can subdue the government with its million-man army and its multi-megaton nukes and submarines and bombers and battleships. Instant disproof: 2020.
It’s true that one gun can kill or deter one burglar, but no amount of individual guns can have the slightest effect against demons who own all the ORGANIZED resources and have INFINITE cash to expand and use the resources. The gun fanciers also have their facts wrong. Russians were well-armed during Stalin’s time. Iraqis were EXTREMELY well-armed during Saddam’s time. Guns didn’t bring down those “dictators”, partly because those “dictators” were considerably smarter and less dictatorial than our current dictators. Stalin never strangled his entire population.
3. Consolidation of computing resources followed two separate tracks, and I think it’s important to separate the tracks.
4. Before Hollerith, record-keeping and calculation were partly mechanized by printing presses and typewriters and abacuses and cash registers. Anyone could own an adding machine, and anyone could own a printing press. The press preferred a few employees for an efficient use of capital, but one-man weekly newspapers were common. Governments and giant businesses had no advantage in this era of mechanization.
5. Hollerith gave the Federal government its first boost with his record-keeping and collating machine for the Census in 1890. IBM immediately tied up with the military and banking and spying sides of Deepstate, providing ever-increasing complexity of services to the demons. IBM always operated on a subscription basis, renting the machines instead of selling.
6. As with printing presses, strictly individual computing power has always been inefficient. Practically speaking, the decentralized end started with small to mid-size businesses. McBee cards, mentioned in previous item, were one branch. Cash registers and ledger-posting machines were another branch.
7. Businesses were webbed up via telegraph lines in the 1880s, and started using fully electronic data communication and control via phone lines in the 1920s. These systems were larger than one building, but INDEPENDENT of central control. They didn’t depend on one set of master wires and nodes. Railroads used their rails to send and receive dispatch signals. A city power company used its own power lines to transfer signals and controls among substations. Radio stations controlled their transmitters via phone lines.
8. The alleged personal computer revolution in the 1980s was always fake. Apple and Microsoft were part of Deepstate from the start, and quickly started down the long road to total centrality via the web.
9. One individual can’t hope to fight or ‘secede’ from Central Death Command. It takes a mid-sized organization with enough resources to set up its own networks outside the central channels.
10. Bitcoin is the money version of the ‘sovereign digital individual’ myth. Bitcoin was PART OF NSA FROM THE FUCKING START. Never decentralized by any possible definition. The BEST way to decentralize is hawala, a system with no connectivity at all. Again this requires a mid-size group with a longstanding cultural common ground. One individual can’t do hawala at all.
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