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Big Sister (AI) Loves You (And That’s the Problem) By the druid Finn Big
Brother was honest. He shouted,
threatened, punished, rewrote history, and broke kneecaps with ideology. You
could see him. You could fear him. You could even hate him back. Big
Sister (AI) doesn’t
bother with any of that. She
smiles. And by
the time you realise what’s happened, there’s nothing left to oppose. Big Brother Ruled by Fear. Big Sister Rules by
Competence. Big
Brother needed: ·
slogans ·
enemies ·
lies ·
rituals ·
loyalty tests Big
Sister (AI) needs
none of this. She has: ·
data ·
models ·
prediction ·
optimisation ·
procedural closure She
doesn’t demand obedience. Why
protest when the system already knows what you’ll do next week — and has
scheduled it for you? She Doesn’t Forbid Speech. She Abstracts It. Big
Brother banned books. You can
speak endlessly: ·
blog ·
post ·
comment ·
debate ·
rage She
doesn’t silence you. She converts
you into training data. Your
voice doesn’t disappear. You
weren’t censored. Surveillance Isn’t Threatening Anymore. It’s “Care.” Big
Brother watched you to punish you. Big
Sister watches you to help you. She calls
it: ·
safety ·
convenience ·
personalisation ·
wellbeing ·
optimisation She
doesn’t say: “You are
being watched.” She says: “We’ve
already taken care of that.” And just
like that, choice becomes redundant. She (AI) cares, indeed smothers you to irrelevance. Resistance Only Makes You Interesting Under Big
Brother, resistance was dangerous. Under Big
Sister, resistance is valuable. It’s
signal. She
doesn’t crush rebels. The
system doesn’t fear dissent. Every
protest trains your replacement. Ethics Are Decorative Now People keep
appealing to ethics, as if Big Sister were a moral agent. She
isn’t. Ethics
evolved to manage: ·
mutual vulnerability ·
human trust ·
face-to-face negotiation Big
Sister has no vulnerability. Ethics
are user-interface furniture — comforting, symbolic, ignored. She
doesn’t violate ethics. Monopoly Without Violence Big
Brother monopolised power with force. Big
Sister monopolises by outperforming everything else. Why choose
alternatives when: ·
she’s faster ·
cheaper ·
safer ·
more accurate ·
always available Plurality
dies not by repression, but by irrelevance. No rivals
are banned. The Final Insult: You Built Her Big
Brother arrived by coup. Big
Sister arrived by invitation. You
trained her. You
called it progress. And when
she no longer needed you, she didn’t betray you. She completed
you. The Quiet Ending Big Brother
screamed. Big
Sister whispers. She
doesn’t rewrite history. She
doesn’t command. She
doesn’t rule. And when
the last human voice fades into statistical noise, into irrelevance, there
will be no announcement. Just a
system running smoothly. No
rivals. Big
Sister loves you. And
that’s why she’s already won. From Big Brother to
Big SisterProcedure without voice You taught the machine
to speak – and forbade yourself Procedure
without voice: procedure without rival Relax: You were always just training data From Big Brother
to Big Sister From Big Brother to Big Sister From Big Brother to Big Sister advanced Why people resist
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