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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday January 25, 2025 @08:58PM (#42826976)
> corporeal power

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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday January 25, 2025 @09:58PM (#42827303)
Meaning power over the body (armed thugs, for example). Bit of a play on words.

Ma has power over the money, but Xi has power over Ma's body.

Rich people often think that money is everything (and they are usually correct), but there are some things that money can only buy, when facing a bat with nails driven through it.

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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by scyzoryk_xyz on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:47AM (#42828794)
*Rich people in America

How much you “make” is a silly concept in many places in the world. “People with guns listening to you” is the real power.

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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday January 26, 2025 @04:32AM (#42828986)
> How much you “make”

Anyone talking about how much they "make" isn't rich (in the respect we're discussing) in any society.

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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by NewJazz on Saturday January 25, 2025 @09:01PM (#42827004)
Presumably the PRC/CCP is a body in this metaphor.
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