Chapter 373 The era of giant companies may be coming
After the announcement of the new Lion City plan, details about the transformation of the Lion City have been exposed one after another, and various speculations have emerged.
Some internationally influential media are trying to draw a conclusion on this series of events.
Among them, The Times rarely used a conspiracy theory perspective to report on the great changes in the Lion City.
"The era of giant companies may be coming
Alpha Technology's behavior is breaking the rules, but China and Amerikan turn a blind eye to such behavior because of their interests.
It is obvious that in the past six months, Alpha is becoming the real master of the Lion City. In the last century, we have conducted various discussions on the form of monopoly enterprises. Whether it is a trust, a corporation, a cartel or a syndicate, there has never been any A giant enterprise defined by economists, like today's Alpha Technology, has such a deep level of control over a country.
Yes, it's control, not influence.
Alpha Technology is even trying to fully implement this control by building a new Lion City. Alpha Technology is not a monopoly. They have many competitors in the field of artificial intelligence. They have never tried to explore the upstream hardware field of artificial intelligence technology like Chinese companies. But when Samad showed his ambitions, the outside world It was the first time I realized that Alpha’s goals were different from those of companies. They were not just targeting economic benefits, they were targeting an entire country.
In the past, academic circles believed that the end of technology giants had come. Microsoft has Windows and Apple has iPhone, but they are destined to end. Every company's product in the world is destined to end. This situation keeps happening in this day and age.
But when Alpha was on the rise, it made a completely different choice from other technology giants. Its choice was not to expand its business, not to carry out a new round of innovation, or to use its advantages in the field of artificial intelligence for more industries. It brought about the industrial revolution, but chose to use it on information asymmetry.
They used their crushing technological advantages to infiltrate the Lion City's internal information into a sieve. The Lion City was no different from being naked in front of Alpha Technology. They used the absolute advantage of information to complete the handover of authority in just one month. Although on the surface, the Lion City is no different from the past. Members of Parliament, Congress, and administrative agencies all exist. What functions they performed in the past and what functions they will continue to perform in the future.
But everyone knows that everything is different from the past. At the press conference of Wang Yikang, the new leader of the Lion City, Alpha Technology CEO Oraz, who was sitting to his left, was swearing in Alpha Technology in a secret and straightforward way. existence.
The establishment of a synthetic sand factory in the Lion City and the huge new Lion City plan can be seen as a redemption for all the people of the Lion City. After the collapse of the financial industry caused by Alpha Technology, Alpha Technology re-created a monopoly industry to carry out its operations. make up.
As for the intervention of artificial intelligence in public affairs, Alpha Technology is nakedly telling the outside world that we want to use artificial intelligence technology to transform the world. In the past three years, Alpha Technology has successfully helped various manufacturing companies complete factory renovations, and their current goal is in the field of public affairs.
Although such great changes have taken place in the Lion City, America, China and Malaysia next to it seemed to be blind to all this and did not make any reaction. American and Huaguo Enterprises are both shareholders behind Alpha Technology, and the Lion City’s land reclamation plan requires Huaguo to provide services.
Although China has launched artificial intelligence computing cards with superior performance than Nvidia, Alpha Technology still spends heavily on purchasing computing cards from Americen Enterprises. Alpha Technology also has a lot of interest disputes with Malaysia. Princess Amina, the daughter of the Malaysian leader, has always been considered Alpha Technology’s most powerful die-hard supporter in Malaysia.
Make good friends with every force that may affect the great changes in the Lion City in advance, ensure that they will not interfere with the established facts through a large number of benefits, and then complete the great changes in just one month. In addition to the absolute advantage of information, Alpha Technology also embodies Strong organizational and management skills.
Alpha Technology has shown the world what technology giants can do in addition to leading technological progress, changes in social trends, and changes in lifestyles. Samad, an entrepreneur from the jungles of Malaysia, has revealed the social tribalism thinking deep in his subconscious. It was so vivid that his engulfment of the Lion City revealed a new path to the tech giants.
Couldn't Google, whose core business has been deeply affected, use a similar method to carry out a huge change in small countries? Once Amazon fails in the competition with Microsoft, it can also imitate Alpha Technology's behavior. I have a hunch that at the end of the first half of the 21st century, the great changes initiated by giant companies will become more common, and the clarion call of cyberpunk is not far away from us.
The golden age that Wright talked about has not yet arrived, and the era of giant companies started by Alpha is just around the corner. ”
If you often read foreign media, you will know that they are good at setting the pace, but media like The Times have a certain degree of integrity. The reports that can appear on the official page are more or less based on evidence, rather than imagining that Alpha Technology is controlling the Lion City. .
But this time the Times report rarely used a lot of speculation to form an article and then build its argument.
It can be said that the foundation is not solid, so how can we ensure that the arguments built on this foundation are unbreakable?
Obviously this reflects the fears of The Times, or the fears of all small wealthy countries.
In the past, whether it was Amerikan's revolving door of politics and business, or in Europe, the relationship between politics and business was more of an exchange of interests. The relationship between the two parties was equal, and even veteran politicians could vaguely dominate.
And Alpha's behavior directly tells the giants, you're welcome, just do it and it's done. With the advantage of information difference, can't you control the MPs? Being submissive is completely unnecessary.
For example, Ireland frequently fines Facebook tens of millions or billions of euros for storing some user passwords in text format.
In the past, Facebook accepted fines, or the technology giants accepted all European fines. Now Alpha Technology has given you a way out, and you can also control European parliamentarians.
To be precise, in the past 16 years, the Hilary email door has vaguely made the technology giants realize how to play. In 20 years, Facebook and Twitter tried to control the election through information push. In 2024, the giant Musk personally stepped down.
The giants are gradually realizing their influence and the extent to which their technological advantages can be achieved, and past boundaries are being broken bit by bit.
But this time, Alpha directly pierced the window paper. Before, everyone was cautiously testing Amerikan step by step, testing what step they could take and what level of impact they could have.
This temptation is limited to Amerikan.
Alpha told these giant companies that the technological advantages they possess would be more lethal in small countries, and that would be a dimensionality reduction attack.
This is why The Times fears.
England is such a "small country". The British Empire may be fine because of the complexity and robustness of its organizational structure, but what about Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland?
It is precisely because of this pessimistic expectation about the future development of the world that the Times report even gave some people a sense of hysteria.
England obviously couldn't accept this.
The great changes in the Lion City have indeed moved the hearts of many people, such as Musk.
He deliberately recruited his friends, mainly the PayPal gang, who had previously dominated the hunt for Twitter.
That is, in more than two months from the end of January to early April 2022 when information disclosure documents were submitted, Musk quietly purchased 73.65 million shares of Twitter’s common stock in the open market, and his shareholding ratio quickly reached 9.2%. . So when Musk suddenly surfaced as Twitter's largest shareholder, Twitter's board of directors didn't expect it at all.
The Twitter board of directors invited Musk to serve as a director the next day in an attempt to exchange his promise not to increase his stake or seek a controlling stake. But Musk refused.
The Twitter board of directors quickly launched a poison pill plan, but Musk did not increase the offer to impress the board of directors, but adopted a strategy of winning people's hearts. He knows very well that Twitter does not have super voting rights, and the board of directors’ shareholding ratio is not even 2.5%. Of this 2.5%, 2.25% also comes from Musk’s friend Dorsey, so as long as it gets the consent of enough institutional investors, it can He forced the board of directors to accept his acquisition offer. Behind this acquisition case, it is obviously not Musk alone, but also a group of Silicon Valley rich people. They not only prompted Musk to launch a hostile acquisition invitation for Twitter, but also directly provided him with financial support.
The many figures hunting down the PayPal gang behind Twitter include Peter Thiel, Hoffman, Horry, LeXing, etc.
After Alpha used more sharp and ferocious methods to hunt the Lion City, Musk was moved. After experiencing his interests being betrayed by the White House, he became more aware that cooperation with the White House might be abandoned sooner or later.
No matter how much money he can donate or how much he can perform to help win over supporters, he only has one vote, and the White House obviously needs more than just one vote.
Therefore, he found that his money was not directly proportional to what he actually wanted to get. The more money he had, the more obvious the marginal effect became. Just when he felt at a loss, the great changes in the Lion City woke him up like a bolt of lightning.
Although Mars is very attractive, and the earth is not small, America is not the only place in this world.
But he knew that if he wanted to accomplish this, he might not be able to do it on his own. He needed the support of his old friends.
"Samad is so cool. It only took less than two months to complete the handover of power to the Li family, which has been in the Lion City for more than half a century." Musk started the conversation. He knew that these people must We also pay special attention to everything happening in the Lion City.
"Elon's heart is moved," Hoffman joked.
"Isn't this obvious? Elon must have a goal. He comes to talk to us because he has a goal in mind." Thiel added.
Steve, he is one of the few people who is not a PayPal gangster but can get into this circle. He is also an early investor in Tesla and SpaceX: "Let us guess where Elon's goal is."
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"I guessed it."
"I guessed it too."
Musk said: "Don't try to trick me.
Don't you guys think this is cool? Think about it and transform it according to your own will to make it better and become an ideal country.
We might be able to recreate a new Roman Empire. ”
Musk seemed very excited: "Alfa has proposed a large-scale intervention of artificial intelligence in public affairs. Isn't this in line with the Amerika we want to achieve?"
DeepState, which is hated by the people here, is in a sense a collection of bureaucrats, and artificial intelligence can just kill them.
After experiencing support for the president, they all came to realize that Alpha's approach was much more direct and effective.
"Of course, the problem is that this is not a small project.
I don't think Samad started acting after Alpha Technologies was founded, he had the idea to act much earlier than we know.
It may have taken no less than twenty years of preparation, but as an audience, we feel that it is very fast.
Just because the action is quick on the water doesn’t mean the preparations are equally hasty. Can we wait another twenty years? ”
"It's a pity that Samad never shows up to the public, and none of us know him. Otherwise, we really could have had a good chat with him.
If we could buy a complete and detailed guide from him, I think we would spend even 10 billion dollars without hesitation. ”
"No, no, no, didn't you all say you guessed what Elon's goal is? You haven't said it yet."
"What's so difficult to guess? It's obviously South Africa. It's also a representative system like the Lion City. There are 400 members in total. Most of the members are black. Black people have more weaknesses and are easier to control.
South Africa's poor economic situation means that the price of redemption after the turmoil is lower, and South Africa's natural resource endowments are very good. At the same time, South Africa's geographical location also determines that it has a certain degree of independence.
Is there a better target than South Africa? ”
Musk was silent. He had this problem after knowing him for too long. He had only made the beginning, and these people had already figured out his thoughts.
“Elon, to be honest, we should all want to do this.
But the problem is really not that simple. We must have a careful enough plan before we start taking action.
Considering the need for high confidentiality and the need to use a large amount of artificial intelligence and hacker attack and defense to build information advantage, this is a paradox.
This will be very difficult, and I think we have to understand as much as possible how Alpha Technology does it before we act. ”
"I know Oraz and I have talked to him more than once. I think we can talk to him first and then contact Samad through him."
"I don't think we have to choose South Africa. It's too big and too conspicuous. Let's not think about keeping it absolutely secret. Things will definitely be disclosed after they happen. Alpha Technology did it so secretly and quickly, and now it is also being disclosed. Exposed one after another
If our target is South Africa, the impact after the incident is incalculable.
And if we choose a smaller target, firstly, the time of the incident can be moved back, and secondly, the impact after the incident can be within a controllable range. We can be said to be imitating Alpha, rather than surpassing it. alpha. ”
(End of chapter)