Blake

When a company tells you how and what to share on their centralised platform… don’t waste your time. nostr:note1r7jjjtq7ac92647qgnwlemv2vudefumjd9luxhjfl5dcfl5asl8qps5dz0

Same monkeys, different zoo. nostr:note1zeqkdqueejgva7flrmnv7azrwgn82l8e5xezyq938ztq4sjhfjzsmfahjv

The internet is already the metaverse. The more we rely on it, the more reality and the metaverse become the same thing. Some kind of visual projection (headset) is only a layer on top - it’s a new UI/UX for the the exact same metaverse.

Use ML to create a scientific paper with supporting reference papers (new or existing) and data, with pretty images and graphs, that’s intended to support a pre-defined argument or position - without having ever performed any science or double blind tests. The paper can be written in a very persuasive fashion to hide or smooth over any obvious counters or expected criticisms.

What if all your posts were ingested by a ML engine and it was asked to create 1,000 profiles, each with a history of posts, targeting topics you care about or your existing contacts do. They can post daily and rehash other content. Then it was asked to connect with as many of your contacts as possible, using topics they are passionate about. Perhaps work, environment, politics, hobbies or activities. Perhaps recent news topics and events you care about - liked, reposted, reported, shared, wrote. Now your network has been infiltrated with fake profiles that all appear to be like minded individuals, each leading their own lives and sharing information you that informs you. They could make up 10-30% of your daily content.

Perhaps GPT-4 is largely marketing and hype. It’s nice and all - yet over sold. More over-sold is the ‘speed’ or rate of innovation. Again, AI’s (I still call it ML) greatest threat to people in the near term is hyper-targeting and malicious actors who can now mass produce human-enough content cheaply - that for all intensive purposes passes enough of a turing test to appear human generated. Our brains effort required to critically dissect and identify as ML/Bot created has crossed a significant barrier - for anything we read now, it takes say two times as long to evaluate it’s origin/intent/source. Previously it was a fraction - easy to identify compared to the content itself. Death by 1,000 cuts is the new reality. Not entirely new, as mass media already does this; however they largely failed at digital (poor revenue). Now it’s possible to make money other ways through similar manipulation digitally - again, with hyper-targeting. The only way I know of adding a cost to the targeted content is (burnt) proof of work. Seems wasteful - yet I don’t know another way to combat the catastrophic drop in price to generate ML. Humans would pay this cost too - yet humans don’t mass produce, so it ideally should mostly negatively impact mass generated content. https://archive.fo/FlBgV

Centralisation failure. Both government and communications. nostr:note1tcqd0qufc8mryfwh9uwac56vmendttq689ts2ygrakysaw00kwxsffse8w

The illusion of democratic government is the illusion that they can control or impact what they can’t. For the most part, they are just along for a cyclical ride they have little real impact on. Voting is irrelevant in a self-correcting system. They “tackle” symptoms and are unable to identify or understand root causes (or they know and it’s too costly, or longer term investment for their needs - solely to retain power), while blaming the last government, global events… basically anything. Laws, regulations, and spending money (financing) broken initiatives isn’t effective. The cost to ROI isn’t understood (aka. over investment), the money is spent inefficiently (corruption and incompetence), and in the wrong places (symptoms, not root causes), and compounding side effects are never understood and are often counter productive.

Nostr clients should likely support a https/wss only mode - largely for media requests, but app wide. Some countries spying and other MIM attacks can be avoided.

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When “enhanced ad privacy” actually means “making more money off you, by default opting you into ad targeting metrics (including sharing your browsing history with sites) built directly into the browser”. 😳

In case anyone thinks the IMF announcing new funding for a country (like Ukraine) - and making it sound like a philanthropic gift - it’s actually debt with a repayment plan. The IMF is no different to a loan shark, or collecting a royalty on all future financial recovery and growth - and takes decades to repay. Plus they seek extra control.. debt with hidden “we are the captain now” terms. Plenty of books explain the IMF trap and global misdeeds if you’d like to learn more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man Note: To be clear, I fully support assistance to rebuild countries after and during war. I don’t support the opportunistic parasitic ‘world funds’ that market themselves as saviours - yet are not close. https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extforth.aspx?memberkey1=993&category=forth&year=2011&trxtype=repchg&overforth=f&schedule=exp&extend=y

Globally police have become trigger happy enforcers - who overreact and shoot bullets and “less than lethal” (read: deadly, but slightly less so) in circumstances without real elevated risk - like nursing home patients and in countries with tight public firearm control… they are not dying in bank robbery shoot outs (statistically). The police institutions (and their training) need to be torn down and completely overhauled. Badge or no badge, murder is murder. Being a police officer is 10-100x (times) safer than many other professions. Police just get a pretty flag folded funeral - when plenty of other service roles deserve greater or equal recognition. https://www.itv.com/news/2023-06-28/paris-angry-clashes-after-delivery-driver-17-killed-in-police-standoff https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-06-27/cps-to-decide-if-police-who-tasered-93-year-old-will-face-charges https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/how-dangerous-is-it-to-be-a-police-officer/

Things are often named what they want to be, yet fall short in reality. Similar to most companies values - if you are something by culture you often don’t need to remind people be act a certain way. nostr:note1kh3ft2s3mwmhfgn9sttsk8mnalnk5aakgmwkpxt6j7m0td6cugcq63lc30