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Some episodes are so shocking that for two or three days politicians and pundits sprinkle their heads with ashes and promise to establish new rules, and to pass restrictive laws. But it’s only crocodile tears. The spread of weapons continues unabated.
Sarai also appears to have built and embellished upon Chail's delusional beliefs, helping him refine the details of his plan. We might imagine this going further, with Sarai making additional suggestions, raising questions for Chail to consider, coming up with alternative strategies and justifications for the attack. As such, we can see how delusional beliefs take shape, are sustained by, and emerge through the human-AI interaction.
Foucault has brilliantly analyzed the ideal project of these environments of enclosure, particularly visible within the factory: to concentrate; to distribute in space; to order in time; to compose a productive force within the dimension of space-time whose effect will be greater than the sum of its component forces.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
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