vacuumflower

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 13 hours ago

But that really is a bias too. Everything has a bias relative to most existing points of view. That's why the "free speech" thing was invented, because when your world is larger than one isolated village or even one isolated, even if moving, royal court, then you can't make everyone think the same subjectively correct way. Free speech was a way for nations to survive modernization. There are more dimensions to the world than any single person understands enough to not be what you said. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is an idiot in something and would want to shut everyone up in that dimension.

Not only it's a right first and foremost of those you disagree with, though, but it also can't ever be based on good will. It can only be based on inability to break by force. Like any other institution.

I think many bad things in our reality are due to reliance on good will having been covertly put into many key places of the mechanisms.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago

Sorry, but that's all permanent political -isms. To find -isms which are not centered around that proposition, you have to leave politics and look for various ephemeral ideas, which only become popular in response to disturbances.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Thus, a user receives an answer that has already undergone a filtering of sorts.

Wouldn't this be an expected trait of a system predicting next most likely token based on lossy compression of specific datasets and other lossy optimization?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 16 hours ago

It began in 1983, somewhere around TCP/IP becoming a thing.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 16 hours ago

That near Florida?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago

I personally think it will, but as part of bigger events. Like a power takeover. A few decades later, perhaps, not that soon. Imagine if someone\something respected and remembered as the ultimate good comes out of shadows to deliver our world (mostly the computer industry and the Internet) from evil (LLM bots, hate campaigns, all the black mirror stuff) by putting it all in hierarchical order and redoing all the political system along the way. Democracy has failed, it's the rule of the loudest, thus of those with the best bots, all such things.

Wouldn't be the first time, such technological changes often affect political system changes all over the world. Remember what coincided with automobiles, airships and airplanes, electric lighting and radio becoming popular.

Except in the 00s everyone thought the changes will all be nice and positive.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 17 hours ago

As an ancap whose views have been called repugnant too, I say you could be more specific and say he's racist, misogynist and mixes up social prowess, intelligence and wisdom, while these are three different things.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 17 hours ago

and impliment a social credit score like China does.

Honestly you don't need such an official system, and such a commercial system, as that network of data brokers and credit rating providers, already exists. So of that in particular I wouldn't be scared because it's not avoidable anyway. What's avoidable is government's ability to discriminate based on data. Think how.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There was a time when bank card number was practically all you needed to get someone's money.

I think Estonia's electronic IDs are the best, they have the government sign (sometimes provide, but generally just sign) your public key. It's both that the government doesn't have your private key and that it's immediately usable for many things. I don't know if they do, but one can also make ID cards (with a necessary chip inside, of course), where a private key can be written and used for signing operations, but not read back.

Modern technology allows so much goodness that politicians and corps have just started globally gaslighting us over what can be done and what can't. Stalling on technically easily solvable issues, so that it wouldn't come to real ones.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago

And it's easy, you take a piece of metal and you hit them in the head.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago

Also these things being unregulated will kill the most poisonous spaces in the Internet, dead Internet theory and such, and build demand for end-to-end trust in identity and message authorship.

While if they are regulated, it'll be a perpetual controlled war against bots, used to scare the majority away from any kind of decentralization and anarchy.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 17 hours ago

Esperanto exists.

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