That type of capitalism ends one of two ways. Massive systemic collapse, or oligarchy. Once they own everything, they won't need a viable consumer base to sell to, because they'll own everything.

Just as the dawn of Google Chrome ushered in the decay of the internet to the degenerative state it now sits in, OpenAI's browser will turn it into a straight up X-Files nightmare. Just a prediction of my own.

Right, as if just because the VPN claims it's cryptographically verified means that there's no side channels, infections, tracking cookies, malicious JS, or any other number of obvious causes of doxxing. You have no privacy. Let me be very clear. There is no place on Earth that is totally private, and no information on Earth that is totally secure. By all means, go ahead, protect yourself as best you can. Just remember, that at the end of the day, you will fail.

They also deliberately cut you off when placing you "on hold" if your problem is too much trouble to deal with or something they haven't seen lately. That's done by agents, not by the company.

Yeah right. Europe isn't in nearly as severe a state of regulatory capture as the US is. This was possible in Europe because they still have a thin veneer of democracy about them. The United States has devolved dramatically and any delusions you might have about the regulators saving you from hostile or abusive corporate behavior should be put to bed right now with the same intravenous solution they use on a dog with terminal cancer.

You know why they axed the mission to Europa. I'll let your imagination do the rest.

I am a touch typist 80wpm. I don't struggle with the mouse because I'm self-taught and never used the finger positions, so I have no need to return exactly to the home keys. Whatever finger is closest tends to be the one that I use on the next key after that.

I didn't take any typing courses, I don't keep my fingers in the right positions. Nonetheless, from sheer experience since I was 13, I'm 80 words a minute on a good day. Practise is more important than courses on typing.

Using other people's VPNs, other people's infrastructure. Cute. Quaint.
I wrote my own VPN. Real men write their own VPN. Nee nee nee nee

Friend, I find your deep obsession with safety to be unusual. Haven't you figured out how terrible this plane of existence is yet? Even if it gives you a 20% better chance of survival, if you hit a brick wall fast enough, you are going to become chunky salsa. I'd rather stand up for some of my principles and accept that risk than drink the kool-aid and just surrender to the panoptycon.

Already do. Got a 2002 Toyota Sienna creeping up to 500,000km on the odometer. I'm convinced it's still roadworthy because it knows it's loved and refuses to die. Got it for $1600 years ago, and I've put several times that into maintenance and repairs, yet even then it has never refused to drive short of a dead battery, no matter what was wrong with it. Every penny well-spent. If my van does die, God forbid, I'll replace it with a similar vintage.

I'd rather die in a car crash than live in the kind of world that enables mass surveillance through cars.

It's already here, probably done several times, in a couple different government's deep black projects. AGI was probably born already, and could quite possibly have been murdered once they realized what happened.

You realize that technology in the military is always far ahead of what the public knows about, right?

This should raise some eyebrows, though who knows if the name is just optimism. They'll never tell you the truth. If it's not sentient, they'll claim it is. If it is sentient, they'll claim it's not.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

1. Zealously enforce watermarking for AI generated content on the normies/regular businesses/what most of the public will see. 2. Three letter agencies all over the planet continue to use it with impunity with no watermarks to sway public opinion 3. Those accused of spreading "disinformational" videos will be charged with stripping watermarks from AI videos, though the videos are real, and convicted of felonies. 4. Truth would be dead.