The Challenge of a Central Point of Capture

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The ability for china to create the sesame credit scores and the mass coherence of its societies creates a central point of capture if it were ever to be influenced in. If you have one system, then it creates maximum incentive to control that one system. It's so reliant on on massive amounts of data that no human being can understand it. And i'm just reading this fascinating book about how henchmen are becoming the main cloaker of the ruler - hackers and secret police. The state is shifting again from the secret police to the siberian gendarmes. You don't understand how it works.You don't control it. In ten or 20 years, it will

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