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He argues that AI becomes economically intelligible if its real product is a surveillance state built from digital ID, digital currency, tracking, profiling, and behavioral manipulation.
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Digital currency, renewables, and China are not alternatives to the system but projections of it, so they come under strain when the system comes under strain.
He argues that AI becomes economically intelligible if its real product is a surveillance state built from digital ID, digital currency, tracking, profiling, and behavioral manipulation.
He treats digital currency as financial repression because eliminating cash enables transaction monitoring and limits on what people can buy.
"you that all these things that you believe are alternatives, including digital currency, renewables, China, they're all just projections, extensions of the system. The..."
"All right? The third thing is Silicon Valley and AI. So right now, you have AI, ChatGPT, which doesn't really do anything. Okay? It..."
"...guys, we have it in China, okay? It's digital ID and digital currency. And the idea is that everything you buy, everything you do..."
"Digital currency. The idea of digital currency is the idea of financial repression. So they're trying to eliminate cash because with cash, there's freedom...."
"...average person, it means two things. It means digital ID and digital currency. Okay. So what that will allow is for the government to..."
"...talk about rationing, well, what comes naturally with rationing is, basically, digital currency and digital I.D. Right? Because think of communism. Think of Marxism...."
"...towards an empire. You need to create an AI surveillance state, digital currency, digital ID, and it's, and it helps you do a national..."
"...you around. We have AI surveillance. We have, um, AI, uh, digital currency and digital, um, ID, and it's worked out well in China...."
"...create an AI surveillance state, right? Where everyone has digital ID, digital currency, and where everyone can be monitored to avoid people from rebelling..."
"...digital ID. Okay? And this digital ID will also lead to digital currency. And they can actually put a microchip or a QR bar..."
"...beast. What do these microchips do? They are digital ID and digital currency, and guess what, guys? If you're not happy, they'll know about..."
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Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
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