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Elon Musk posts this yesterday. It's the beginning of the "The Guns of August" book about the prelude to World War 1 which talks about the end of an empire (or the last gasp of the Victorian era way of life) and what led to the war to end all wars.

Elon has sank enormous amounts of money into Starlink, and, regardless of the hype, it isn't so you can download a movie in seconds onto your smartphone (perhaps while in the middle of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail or some other remote place). My conspiratorial mind thinks the purpose of Starlink is to have instantaneous global control over AI robots - but nobody really knows and he's not talking.

Elon's Twatter post after this talks about the nine rings given to men and is from the "Lord of Rings" trilogy.

Anyone else worried about this? We're all tightly focused on Afghanistan and Covid crap, and Elon is apparently on another subject altogether. Or is it? Your thoughts?

Elon Musk posts this yesterday. It's the beginning of the "The Guns of August" book about the prelude to World War 1 which talks about the end of an empire (or the last gasp of the Victorian era way of life) and what led to the war to end all wars. Elon has sank enormous amounts of money into Starlink, and, regardless of the hype, it isn't so you can download a movie in seconds onto your smartphone (perhaps while in the middle of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail or some other remote place). My conspiratorial mind thinks the purpose of Starlink is to have instantaneous global control over AI robots - but nobody really knows and he's not talking. Elon's Twatter post after this talks about the nine rings given to men and is from the "Lord of Rings" trilogy. Anyone else worried about this? We're all tightly focused on Afghanistan and Covid crap, and Elon is apparently on another subject altogether. Or is it? Your thoughts?

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My conspiratorial mind thinks the purpose of Starlink is to have instantaneous global control over AI robots - but nobody really knows and he's not talking.

I know. It's not to control AI robots. Why don't you come back down to earth and look at REAL conspiracies and what having a huge network with lots of internet traffic would be actually used for.... Data is gold. Data is power.

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Nine rings to the nine ruling families (was 12). Knowledge is power, and control of that knowledge via technology is ultimate power.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

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Or maybe it's less occluded.

Presidents are kind of like kings but with less power.

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Presidents are kind of like kings but with less power.

Used to be. Right now we have a very old, very corrupt, and very senile pedophile as our top leader who ignores any and all laws and the Supreme Court rulings to do whatever the fuck he wants. Seems pretty king-like to me.

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Elon is not going to make an internet service with the purpose of controlling AI robots. He is making internet access through satellite available, though. What governments do with that should worry you much more than Elon.

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AI robots of various kinds, also there will be augmentations in humans to have a brain augmentation for you to access the Internet. Obviously it will be connected with this starlink.

They made this guy rich so he can fund these technologies and some reason everyone hails him as a hero.

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I'm not too worried about what Elon means by that. We are in a time similar to pre WW1 where there will be a war. The US is losing its position has the hegemony and every time this has happen, a massive war occurred to see who would take the spot.

Some seems to think that it will be a non-violent 5th generation warfare (since we're already in the middle of it) transition towards China, but it might be more wishful thinking than anything grounded in reality. An actual assertion of dominance will be needed and it's likely to be Taiwan (and maybe more).