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Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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The number of people in this thread that apparently know the secret, nefarious intentions that Zuckerberg truly has is... Well, not surprising, given that this is the internet and Hacker News. :)

Well, this is a thread speculating about the future decade, reflecting on a guy's insights who has a dubious track record, by intelligent people that are in the loop of current tech trends.

An AI could easily have generated this thread.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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The section titles are pretty funny. It's almost as if they were chosen to specifically disappoint cypherpunks. > A New Private Social Platform Cypherpunk: Signal! Tor! Riot! Mark: Small groups of people who know each other. > Decentralizing Opportunity Cypherpunk: Bitcoin! Peertube! IPFS! Mastadon! Namecoin! Scuttlebutt! Mark: Products for small businesses. > The Next Computing Platform Cypherpunk: Ethereum! Urbit!…

You give a lot of weight to cryptocurrency/blockchain/similar tech, and there's a lot more out there than that. I'm still waiting to see one reasonably decent application of a blockchain, and remarkably few of the things you mentioned provide much more than opportunities for scams and speculation.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They said they are willing to put effort in for their friend. What is wrong with that?

The fact that they regard their friend's lack of Facebook use as a frustrating chore that requires effort.

You can internally think doing something is frustrating, but the more frustrating things you are willing to do for the friendship the more it shows you value that friendship. And it does require effort, there is no argument about that.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Full of himself"? Way too mild an indictment. In the last 24 hours Facebook bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it, then when they got caught, they denied knowing anything about it. And what was that ad/story about? Their commitment to stopping disinformation. All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers.

Citations to your references would be appreciated. It's the first step to overcoming the state of internet disinformation, as well as helping society overcome the fear of missing out just because someone doesn't already know your references.

He's talking about the facebook-teenvogue story

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Funny the way that he included "Decentralizing Opportunity", and then followed up by envisioning a scarily centralized future for e-commerce.

Thats a shame because a re-decentralization of the web is one of the things that really should happen.

True decentralization will happen when anybody can host a functional website on their mobile phone(s) without depending upon the services of a corporate behemoth.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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I think Zuck is too full of himself. People often get confused that their success means that they are wise, and that we should listen to them. Should we as well follow the thought leadership of drug cartels and the Saudi monarchs?

Reminds me of -

VR talk with Mark Zuckerberg (bit nsfw): https://youtu.be/q2LIXcbDiZA

It will be a difficult battle for privacy when AR becomes mainstream. They will have reasons to track your surroundings and every body movement. :(

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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I think Zuck is too full of himself. People often get confused that their success means that they are wise, and that we should listen to them. Should we as well follow the thought leadership of drug cartels and the Saudi monarchs?

"Full of himself"? Way too mild an indictment. In the last 24 hours Facebook bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it, then when they got caught, they denied knowing anything about it. And what was that ad/story about? Their commitment to stopping disinformation. All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers.

You might be interested in thss talk, in case you haven't heard about it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXACRrzLMA

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citations to your references would be appreciated. It's the first step to overcoming the state of internet disinformation, as well as helping society overcome the fear of missing out just because someone doesn't already know your references.

He's talking about the facebook-teenvogue story

NYT article about it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue...
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