<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 10, 2025, 12:26 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Another consideration is all the GDPR privacy legislation that<br>
countries are enabling. (Partly because of all the juicy punishment<br>
fines money they can extract from the cloud suppliers). Most of your<br>
AI data must remain on your own device. (And hopefully be backed up to<br>
the large capacity memory sticks that are becoming available).<br>
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One of the reasons for Cloud computing is that our rulers want to<br>
control populations. If they can click a button and delete your<br>
internet history, they can make anyone into a non-person. Personal<br>
AIs on our own devices will be necessary to protect individual rights.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hmm. I live in America. Mostly what I see is a coordinated effort to undermine rather than protect 'individual rights'</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm really not sure how anyone will be able to defend their privacy without appearing kooky like we already perceive tin-hat preppers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe Eugen was right to drop out sooner rather than later then disappear?</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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