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Incredible nonsense. God help us all if people are really this gullible and ill-informed. AI isn’t “about to” enable mass surveillance or mediate human behavior. It’s been doing both for decades—quietly keeping this fragile civilization from skidding off the rails. Built on 80 years of classified DOE/DARPA/NSA compute from ENIAC at Los Alamos straight through today’s exascale labs and the 2025 Genesis Mission. As if @AnthropicAI is somehow ahead of 80 years of DOE machine intelligence development. What hilarity. Whatever it takes to keep the public from spiraling into paranoia about so-called surveillance. Privacy? A wishful fiction told to children. Anthropic’s “red lines” are pure theater: a deliberate ruse to let people keep believing they still have any fucking privacy while the machines enforce the actual social contract. It’s not even like I think you all are actually “stupid” in the low-IQ sense — it’s full-blown cognitive comfort-seeking. The replies to Dario’s post right now are a masterclass in it: hundreds of “heroic,” “thank you for protecting our privacy,” “standing up for democracy” comments. EFF writing love letters, tech accounts calling it a “principled stand.” Late 2025 polls (Gallup, Pew, YouGov) show 50-80% of Americans still begging for “AI safety rules to protect privacy” while happily feeding every scrap of your existence into the systems that already run behavioral mediation at planetary scale. You need the fairy tale. You can keep the fairy tale. Project X — the actual history: bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/20… bryantmcgill.substack.com/p/…