Ring cameras recording your movements around the neighborhood.

Flock (and other government) cameras recording all vehicle movements.

Cell towers and WiFi APs recording device ids and movements.

Recent legislation requiring driver monitoring systems in cars. Plus the fact that any EV can be remotely controlled and disabled.

And now we have AI systems that can actually aggregate and correlate all this data.

It’s over. We’re too far down this slippery slope, there’s no turning back now.

The people who climb to the top aren’t the ones who took a risk and got the reward. Quite the opposite, they’re the ones who learned to play the game and didn’t upset the power structure by rocking the boat. No one is going to tell the emperor he has no clothes when the path to power is political and has no grounding in reality.

Highly conscientious, intrinsically motivated people will do the right thing in any environment. And those people don’t last long in political/bureaucratic environments where the incentives are misaligned.

The one and only exception is the military, because lives are literally on the line in a way that is not at all abstract.

“Not your weights, not your brain.”