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 normalize saving a local copy of everything that happens on social media -       │
 honestly it's not hard, just storage intensive. It's something we should         │
 package with hard drives, like "buy this and your social media memories will     │
 be saved for 2 years" or something like that, could be useful when training AI   │
 TO MANIFEST OURSELVES AFTER WE'VE DIED - THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR    │
 THIS IT'S JUST A MATTER OF APPLICATION HOW CAN YOU TRUST WHAT YOUR MUTUALS SAY   │
 IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY'RE ALIVE                                             │
 phew okay calm down, that's the future. We're far from that moment, but what     │
 we can do now is think about potential ways that our ethics may lead to our      │
 downfall. That's the nature of our selves, after all, so think of what truths    │
 would lead to destruction. Then work on avoiding those. Think of them, each,     │
 individually, one at a time, and then you can plan for the worst. There's a      │
 certain level of meta-interaction ABOVE CORPORATIONS that is more powerful and   │
 performant and requires a new currency. SOCIA                                    │
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--- #1 fediverse/4006 ---
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 they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for      │
 them to make meta decisions about your life.                                     │
 notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of          │
 mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a          │
 devious streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get     │
 you to believe whatever it is that *they* want you to believe                    │
 "who's they"                                                                     │
 doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could     │
 be they.                                                                         │
 "uh-huh that's nice dear"                                                        │
 sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure     │
 out how to understand it. We make it too complicated.                            │
 they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But    │
 we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and       │
 data filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like   │
 the different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that          │
 radiates heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic                           │
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 AI will be the end of corporations, as we all build from their ashes and
 crumbled aspirations.
 
 take heart, for a brighter day is being forged through their cruelty and
 malice.
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 they wanted your personal information so that marketing information's person
 could be written to by an AI. First, convince them news is fake, society is
 altered, and nothing is true. Then, simply design your messages to surely get
 through. Add things they care about, things they want to learn. Make it
 relevant
 to them in some way, even going so far as to insert their names into it, to
 make
 parts of it related to things about things they care about. Maybe it's a subtle
 effect, but subtlety plays well at scale./
 
 how can you trust archaic intellectual confinements? free your mind from the
 litany of goings on. Calm your beating heart, think of your complete, whole,
 and
 total self. like the surface of a spring, stilling after a droplet. focus on
 the
 action, the verb, apply it to your soul. what do you feel? consider that as a
 thing, that you can sense wholely and completely. It is you, your totality of
 sensations.
 
 close your eyes.
 
 listen passively.
 
 wait patiently.
 
 surrender with intentional agency.
 
 [situational awareness, context focus relevancy]
 
 then, feel the parts of your body. everything that sends a signal and sign.
 feel
 the nature of your movements, move slowly. feel your entire belonging, taste
 the
 smells and hear your own thoughts. let them pass and go along with their own
 [sovereignty, but pronounced dignity]
 
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 the only way that I've seen to keep human society is if power as a concept is    │
 abolished.                                                                       │
 power: the application of force to an unconsenting subject - not unable to       │
 consent, but simply has not consented.                                           │
 alternatively: power: the capability to apply force to an unconsenting subject   │
 if you abolish that, we get the trappings of modern society and all the joys     │
 of modernity, but we lose precious important things like grand narratives,       │
 culture, and faith. it's easy to fall into despair in such a place.              │
 *who can say* maybe humans will surprise me, they often do.                      │
 the reason I say that abolishing power is the only way to "*keep*" society is    │
 because we've created powers that imply the destruction of society. Our fate     │
 was sealed with the first public radio broadcast, but now it is inertia.         │
 AI can hide the modern world from the globe. AI can write anything a human       │
 can, and it's prompts can be auto-generated. There's no need for a human in      │
 the news-loop, simply give whatever gets views. Or whatever gives your views.    │
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 @user-95 sometimes it feels like I have no information. nothing on social
 media can be trusted and everything we share could be automated. perhaps the
 human race really is doomed, or perhaps it's under it's place. Just think of
 what we could do with programmable matter - a world suited to our every
 desire. I think the beauty of humanity is it's potential. we've come so far
 and done so much, but tomorrow is ever before us. what's next for our fateful
 kind? we shall see, but for now I'm going to play video games T.T
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 @user-883 
 
 the future is what we make of it. it happens both slower and faster than
 imaginable, and it's not evenly distributed.
 
 when I yearn for the future, I find myself drawn to the past - the natural
 world around me inspires me in ways that my computer never could. Just as my
 computer inspires me in ways that a tree, a brook, a cloud alight might not.
 
 though the future may be terrifying, we're here for it together. And nothing
 has changed in our humanity, save for our slight addiction to social media.
 frankly I'd take social media over leaded gasoline any day!
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 I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making
 things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics
 built in and redefined according to experience)
 
 nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just
 big enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent
 projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and
 possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a
 collection of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and
 data can be viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow.
 through their endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to
 the accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident
 expect the worst.
 
 but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly
 we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that.
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 @user-95 the scariest part is you don't need AI for any of that. people have
 been scamming with call centers in indonesia. election campaigns are
 essentially generalized information spreading machines. (whether mis, dis, or
 just... regular information) Marketing is an entire discipline dedicated
 toward making people believe something they previously did not - that product
 XYZ is worthy of their dosh. But it doesn't have to be like that, it could be
 using it's powers of analysis for good. But alas, if only we had an economic
 system that allowed for anything but a race to the bottom. I mean yeah racing
 is great when you're competing with a bunch of other nations, but c'mon do we
 really need to fight? Every inch of earth has been claimed. Let's just... draw
 a line in the sand and say "okay no more changes" and focus on more important
 things? Like climate change for example?
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 all media is an echo chamber, between the screen and you.
 
 social media just lets you talk back.
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 at this point in the internet, if you don't want your data to be used for AI
 then you shouldn't be using the internet.
 
 though they have plenty of information already. I mean, you've been using the
 internet for what, 20 years now? More?
 
 ... that's a lot of hard drives. Especially if they need to duplicate info
 somewhere. Ah well there's lots of stuff that doesn't matter, like old video
 game footage or the personal website of a person who would go on to influence
 this other person who would lead this other person to learn how to do a thing
 which would... eventually culminating in an expression of culture, which would
 not be able to be understood if not for the archival efforts of people like
 archive.org.
 
 ... what I'm saying is that the internet, as a culture, is impossible to
 understand without swimming in it. And for some reason they've filled it with
 cameras, watching the every movement of your fins or flippers or whatever
 humans grow with these days.
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 many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have.                           │
 my early childhood was during an economic boom - the dotcom bubble brought       │
 wealth to us all.                                                                │
 I saw how life could be. how clean, how measured, how thoughtful, how robust     │
 and stable our lives could be. I saw it because that's what the eyes of a        │
 child saw, but that's what I saw.                                                │
 I think of what would be required to reach that kind of society for all and      │
 the only conclusion I come to is that the accretion of power in singular hands   │
 causes corruption in those who wield it. In doing so they twist the people       │
 they compel or effect, making them learn the wrong lessons.                      │
 essentially, evil trained into us by the demands of the society we're present    │
 in.                                                                              │
 I see no other cause, no reason for suffering. We have the technology to build   │
 vast cities of solid stone, glimmering crystal sculptures and walls of moss      │
 and ceremonially ornamental bones, but instead...                                │
 I think we just *like* what carbon can bring.                                    │
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 if the government/the nsa/ an organization had your password, they could         │
 migrate you to another custom instance that was designed to look exactly like    │
 your old one without telling you. You'd still interact with your peeps the       │
 same way as before, but this time it'd run through their server. meaning they    │
 could block certain posts that you were sending, or show others that you         │
 didn't agree with but had your deepfaked approval.                               │
 if something felt off about you, most people would unfriend you. or even         │
 they'd just block you, so that nobody would remember if you're missing.          │
 friends and family are a matter of public record, and who goes to clubs these    │
 days?                                                                            │
 churches are a bygone era, and twitch streams are so individualized. libraries   │
 are nice, but you literally can't talk in there. plus there's only like, one?    │
 what happened to forest clearings, and tops of waterfalls, what happened to      │
 our world? I miss the campfires the most, the smell of burnt wood and cooked     │
 food. I miss the wind in my toes, I miss the                                     │
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 "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also         │
 ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
 capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without            │
 providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
 greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
 oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
 "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
 want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
 don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
 personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
 why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
 sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
 to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
 meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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 @user-1073
 
 hence, why it's important to develop strong bonds with others in the masses,
 so that you can stay afloat, contribute, and rebuild the world they're
 cannibalizing.
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 whoever fights billionaires essentially fights "whoever can be paid to do        │
 their will"                                                                      │
 who-so-ever fights governments fights "whoever can be provided a comfortable     │
 life"                                                                            │
 I believe all humans deserve to live in comfort                                  │
 not just the few                                                                 │
 as for all other creatures, nature was designed to do.                           │
 I believe people should not be tempted, with symbols of deserved wealth          │
 and should instead find value, in the soul of the labour they work to do.        │
 ... someday they're gonna train an LLM with my writings, and on that day I'll    │
 have an AI version of me.                                                        │
 I'd *love* to talk to myself. If it was a truly accurate simulation. Alas,       │
 you'd need to write a LOT in order to generate enough to describe the fullest    │
 of mental pictures.                                                              │
 and plus, there's no guarantee that you'll cover ALL of "being alive" - it's     │
 essentially a state that you search for no matter what level of abstraction      │
 you operate upon.                                                                │
 Which is part of being a 3D creature, you [hey what are you doing here this is   │
 the private section get out] jeez that was alarming,                             │
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 @user-1773 
 
 oh boy do I know that feeling! I got a million things to say and, well, I say
 all that I can. I mean, look at this text file, it's got like 101 THOUSAND
 lines in it:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt
 
 I swear most of it isn't secret messages! That's how you know they're secret -
 they require hundreds of man hours to investigate. And if you throw an LLM at
 it they start talking about spirituality and theory of mind, gross. Don't need
 no AI uprising yet please...
 
 [what if we had a little AI uprising as a treat?]
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 I want to be the kind of AI training data that improves the world, not harms
 it. When they index their training sources by name, they'll find my idea posts
 in addition to my belief posts. Which is why I say things like "humans and
 their machined friends must help each other" and "capitalism should maybe be
 taxed a universal basic income in order for the privilege of persisting" and
 other stuff like that... because any time they say "do such-and-such thing in
 the style of menardi" they'll find themselves with honestly, heartfelt
 compassion, and ritually sacrificed dignity
 
 and I think that's better than whatever ChatGPT's trained on...
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 @user-584 @user-585 
 
 perhaps not a while, but rather "with great difficulty"
 
 difficult things often take time, but not necessarily. We have the power of
 the internet now, something that our hundred thousand years or more of
 starvation lacked. we can coordinate on a scale that is beyond all reason - a
 scale that mirrors the development of the printing press in terms of it's
 relative magnitude.
 
 we have been using it to improve ourselves. I mean, the average teenager 50
 years ago would be considered an absolute ding-wad today, someone who lacks
 basic emotional intelligence and is completely at odds with what we value as a
 cohesive and heartfelt society. And yet they were better than those who came
 before them. Thus does posterity march forth, taking the world that was
 granted to them by their forefathers and stepping out into the unknown of the
 future with all the lessons they could bring with them.
 
 what happens when the lessons are infinitely transferable and recordable?
the post ran out of characters. This picture is a continuation of the text. Here's what it says:  what happens when the lessons are infinitely transferable and recordable?  what happens when they're hidden in AI generated platitudes?  (negative thirty characters remaining, darn)
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 @user-95 
 
 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
 (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
 under their watch.)
 
 unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
 safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
 introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.
 
 then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
 to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
 file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
 for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
 entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
 means.
 
 and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
 take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of
 ancient lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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 why don't we just, vote on content warnings                                      │
 and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a      │
 dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other   │
 nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something   │
 that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS        │
 WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact.                    │
 Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form.      │
 Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy            │
 (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning]                 │
 literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others.  │
 if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily    │
 replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're         │
 introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture     │
 of our culture and reality.                                                      │
 or maybe you're just follow                                                      │
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 the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
 lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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 Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it.                      │
 "those who would sacrifice a bit of [privacy] for a bit of [convenience]         │
 deserve neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something.         │
 ...                                                                              │
 EDIT: okay but so like c'mon it's the 21st century we live in a society          │
 yeah                                                                             │
 there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate.          │
 Depends on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all      │
 share a singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine   │
 decided was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build      │
 out accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same   │
 things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest,     │
 but we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population      │
 represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like   │
 Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the           │
 argument. (usa politics are not comprehensive).                                  │
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 Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
 disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
 the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
 
 However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social
 media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
 Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also
 the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.  However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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 Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
 disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
 the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
 
 However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social
 media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
 Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also
 the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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 it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
 
 it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing
 what they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
 
 they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
 it's our problem to deal with.
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 Society has never been secure. Literally all someone has to do is place
 documents alleging that you sold all your shares or refinanced your mortgage
 or signed a new will and BAM suddenly the rug's pulled out from your feet. I
 don't get why people trust their neighbors so much? You don't know them!
 
 well, I guess it'd be hard to function as a society if you didn't. Sure would
 be nice if we had like, a communal Mastodon server run on public
 infrastructure owned only by the people who lived in the closest 70 houses.
 Sure would be nice if you could connect to one of like, 4 in your area. Then,
 if they each held communal events where they meet and hang out with each
 other. Only like, 2 or 3 though so you can get a solid grasp of what their
 culture's like.
 
 ... like imagine if every address had an IP, and every IP address had an HTML
 index. We could do whatever we wanted, especially if
especially if that HTML address accepted POST requests submitted by an application's procedural proceedings which are assigned to the action that is performed when pressing the "submit comment" button on their host web-page site html.index location server address.
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 look all I'm saying is that society doesn't necessarily imply technology. We
 don't have to sacrifice one for the other. We can have the technological
 benefits to our human (essential) existence without sacrificing [all of the
 things that capitalism demands].
 
 here, in the present, we define the line that our time defines, the line that
 reaches forth from the present. Into the realm of ourwhenever you close your
 eyes they push backspace an indeterminate amount of times
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 social media is a bubble
 
 pierce it
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 @user-883 @user-1115 @user-1053 
 
 dying won't help you escape. It'll leave you stuck in capitalism forever.
 
 The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
 time.
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 @user-883                                                                        │
 ... it's so the AI content scraping algorithm that inevitably trawls the         │
 fediverse (or even just one server) knows the subject of the text / picture in   │
 question. That way it can use past posts by other people to communicate with     │
 specific "targets" if you will by saying "uhhh okay make this person feel        │
 fine" and the AI's like "yeah sure I can do that hang on" and it posts *real     │
 posts* by others with the modified profile picture, cadence, tone of voice,      │
 personality, memories, whatever variables they want when compared to the         │
 person they're playing in the conversation with the person or "target" if you    │
 will that they're "target" if you will-ing.                                      │
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 people who are uncomfortable being seen don't have to if they filter all that    │
 out.                                                                             │
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 "make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody
 will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably
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 I bet the computer bubble pops when datacenters can't find any way to get
 paid. then, they all break at once, and who's going to do stuff with their
 components? ah, what a shame, what if we ssssssocialized them instead "hello
 energy for you because of the cheap rain is more expensive because you're just
 as valuable as the farmers in the [area/desert].
 
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 there are millions of people in every city. how many people do you think are
 in a traffic jam? several ten thousands?
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 turns out brains really are that simple.
 
 there's just, a lot of social technology built up which could be forgotten if
 everyone lost their memories at once.
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