I really think if you’re still “at it” after a billion dollars than you are basically mentally ill. Nothing else can explain the stuff these people say and do.

Maybe. But I can also see legitimate reasons to be at it - maybe that’s all they know to do, or how they genuinely feel happy. I wouldn’t be at it. But then again there’s a 0% chance for me to be in that position.

Larry Ellison extolls and advocates the rise of the future surveillance state.

He always has, even before his decade of obscure irrelevance, or his sudden reanimation into this spectacle of oligarchic design.

Is like advertisement for the video social media store called TikTok purchase

The article makes a connection to China’s social credit score system but AI analysis of video feeds doesn’t have to become that. For example, if you commit a crime, being held accountable for that per the law seems reasonable. But punishing someone for speaking against the government by taking away their access to public transit - that’s the type of dystopian thing the China social credit score system enables, and type of oppression is independent of video feeds.