Right, there's probably no other phone in the world that typically stops for hours within 1000 feet of my bed and typically stops on Monday-Friday within 1000 feet of my work-desk.
replyNow think what Lavrenti Beria and an LLM could have done with that.
replySomebody once said that if Stalin had access to television, he would never have to kill 20+ million ppl. What would he do with all that data? No idea.
replyOnly thing better to rule with is a network connected telescreen that monitors and issues orders to the proles.
replyPretty sure it would be hard to enslave these people through television
replyWould it be? I'd argue the current US administration is entirely propped up by television. Hell, the president seems to "rule" based on what Fox News said last night.
replyA slightly different and no more charitable perspective is that the people pulling the president's strings are the same people pulling Fox News's strings.
replyI think this begs the question of what anonymous data means. Sure my visit to HN is "anonymous" in that it doesn't say "abustamam visited this site" but piece together all the other visits that have my "anonymous ID" then eventually it paints a pretty nice picture of who I am.
replyDoes it map to a single, identifiable person or something close enough that the distinction is meaningless?
replyThen it's not anonymous.
Simple as that.
And with LLM’s now it’s easier than ever to piece the parts together. Companies were doing it before we even knew what LLM’s were capable of.
replyEdit: It's a rhetorical fiction the ad industry tells us.
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