[extropy-chat] data integration; AI management; defense funded singularity-near term trends

[Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc.]

The military is  a focused design/implmentation  engine.  Devoid  of
internal traditional private market  competition, driven to succeed ; at
least at the strategic planning echelon.

So the funding that gave us first computers, then the internet may
indeed be that which
accidentally creates a sentient  singularity wielding AI.

The integration of public and private data by TIA creates the
integrated  knowledge database to mine.
The transactional tracking data ,especially once RFID tracking is
integrated,  provides complete
people management capabilities.

The computing grid provides the way to implement AI based subtle
decision making tweaking.

I think that therefore it will be the strategic military plan to
integrate all non-web societies and persons therein to conduct their
daily affairs so that  their activities are detectable and therfore
potentially controllable.

Outwardly, it may look like an oil or religeous war but in reality
future conflicts may  be aimed more towards the assimilation of persons
and societies into  modern structures amenable to the above.

The trick will be for individuality all its aspects to survive , despite
subtle,  continuous manipulation.

Self determination of lifestyle, lifespan potential, physical
enhancements are all somewhat at
odds with an AI managed society; Unless, the AI comes to realize that
without those very freedoms, its existance might have never occurred and
thus decides on its own to foster these contrarian activities.

Morris