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What an odd thing to say…

Shirley Fenette from Code Geass, because she deserves so much better.

Because intellectually lazy people want simple ways to decide if something is good/bad without having to actually think about a specific situation themselves.

Chinese too

The reddit thread on this is full of people talking about this being the best year they’ve ever had, so… maybe not as great a system as they’re selling it to be?

Par for the course.

A small splash of amaretto in macaroni and cheese. Only about a cap full, or one teaspoon, gives it an amazing sweet and salty flavour.

I discovered this incredible recipe one night when I was preparing some mac-n-cheese only to discover I was completely out of milk, and had to substitute the next best liquid I had on hand.

Social media not being the focus of every government, advertising agency and activist organization in existence.

Simple as that.

The situation is nowhere near that simple. You just want to pretend it is so you don’t have to ask difficult questions that challenge your perspective, like why the current government is wildly unpopular.

Removing people’s ability to choose the government they desire is not democracy.

The solution being proposed here to prevent authoritarian systems is… other authoritarian systems. Can you understand why people see this as a problem brewing?

Maybe if you want to prevent such a hypothetical future the democratic solution is to offer something better for people to vote for, instead of using threats of violence by employing the law to enforce your systems.

Yes. Democracy is when you refuse to allow the people to have a say in their systems of governance.

Right, but when we’re talking in the context of regulating broad democratic systems, the potential for deliberate corruption of the systems is vastly greater while employing black cube technology.

I’m talking about hardware though. Even before you get into whether or not software can be trusted you should understand that computer chips have a very large number of undocumented processes that can run on them. Some are actually used only for testing purposes, but there really isn’t any way to verify everything that happens on the physical machine itself. You just have to trust the people who manufactured it (ie. total strangers).

Installing democratic control

Unfortunately the nature of these enterprises makes that prohibitively difficult to accomplish, not only for regulating them, but also for protecting democratic controls elsewhere. One of the big difficulties in tech security is just how much is happening inside black boxes where nobody can actually verify the process.

So, what then? Do you think research on the subject is just spontaneously generated?

Except the climate research industry. They alone can be trusted to provide objective research regardless of who pays them.

Amazing how much easier it is to motivate yourself when you have the ability to make significant decisions on the fly, based on the immediate feedback you receive from the system, instead of spending half your time hitting your head against a wall attempting to sus out self-contradictory instructions given by people who don’t actually understand how any of it really works.