> The data centers will be guarded by automatons and drones.

Which is why Iran bombing a few Western-run data-centers located in the Emirates was cheered by many of the normal people actually living in the West. I’m pretty sure that if somehow Iran were to take out OpenAI’s servers for good that images with the Ayatollah will unironically start to spring up in the same West.

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deaux 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I’m pretty sure that if somehow Iran were to take out OpenAI’s servers for good that images with the Ayatollah will unironically start to spring up in the same West.

Cute, but that's why they took over TikTok baby, so there's no chance of anything like that happening again.

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jen20 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have any sources for "normal" people (i.e. not the terminally online) being happy that datacenters were bombed?

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paganel 15 hours ago | parent [-]

> i.e. not the terminally online)

We're not in 2018 anymore, everyone is terminally online now, you must have missed the shift. I've seen mini-bus drivers watching social media videos (Tik-Tok, that is) while driving from all the way to Germany to here in Romania (from where I'm from), I noticed that because I was one of the passengers. Almost all of the remaining passengers (not middle-class, you can well imagine that) were on their phones for the majority of the trip (30-ish hours or so), that is when they were not sleeping.

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jen20 14 hours ago | parent [-]

That didn't really answer the question...

However, using your phone does not make you terminally online. That is more of a mental state, and while some Europeans may be in it, my experience is that most are not.

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paganel 14 hours ago | parent [-]

> my experience is that most are not.

As I said, my experience is totally the opposite, but I've started seeing that, i.e. the middle-classes trying to distance themselves from the internet (as present on their mobile phones), such as seeing that, i.e. being terminally online via one's mobile phone, as a "mental state". It wasn't a "mental state" when it was only the middle-classes who were doing it, back in the late-Obama era.

Back to your question, the people I shared my ride with, the normal people, have started being very conservative, I would say even luddite, when it comes to their voting choices, if you live in Europe you might have noticed that.

	▲	jen20 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Terminally online" does not mean "uses the internet a lot".