Wow! I’m impressed. He sounds like an adult now. He actually has nuanced opinions. What a world we live in.
Things that I think will be important in the next decade
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, I just want my heads up life display because...why not? Maybe I won’t trust Facebook to give it to me, but if the tech becomes good enough, I’m definitely going to embrace it. Is it really a dystopian future? We’ve adjusted to the telegraph, camera, telephone, radio, TV, cell phone, smart phone and...why are AR glasses going to be the tech to bring society down?
Huh, I just want my heads up life display because...why not? Assuming that your heads-up live display contains a public facing camera here's: Why not! I don't like sitting in a bar (or a strip club, or in any other semi-public, or even public dodgy or non-dodgy place) and you hang there with your heads-up live display recording my image. I don't like the fact that it's uploaded to some tech behemoth' server for furth…
Those bars and strip clubs already have plenty of CCTVs, you are being recorded. Police have body cams, cars have dash cams, almost every phone has a camera capable of taking video, the chance that you are being recorded if someone wants to is already very high.
A glass cam will probably work out the same way CCTV has: people are worried about the potential for privacy abuse, but in the end these fears don’t come to pass.
Google Glass wasn’t ready, the tech isn’t ready yet. People stopped using it because it wasn’t useful. The tech will be useful someday, however.
Luddites complained about the automated loom as well, saying the cost to society was too great despite its benefits. It didn’t work out well for them in the end.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#233I 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. :(
This is unpopular to say, but when we're heading for a mass extinction event, maybe we should be sacrificing freedom for the sake of social cohesion. There should be facial recognition, social score and such things, to preserve humanity from chaos. I think there's a decent case to be made, and that's why I generally appreciate what China is doing. They are the best prepared for what might come.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#234so... Facebook wants to acquire Stripe.
I thought he meant Libra.
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#235The 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!…
Mark's definitely on his own augmented reality. Unfortunately the rest of us get to enjoy the Coriolis effects of it via his monetization of dishonesty.
I particularly like this comment. I have nothing else to add, keep moving.
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#236My take:
>A New Private Social Platform Marc doesn't know what it will be but wants to buy it. He knows that it is a thing.. Well we all do and have been trying to figure it out. Path was one attempt... maybe it was too early.
> Decentralizing Opportunity Marc could already allow easy "buy it now" buttons in Facebook but doesn't for some reason...
>New Forms of Governance This is the wrong question. He should be pushing democratic ideals world wide.
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#237I 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.
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Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#238I 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.
Highly successful entrepreneurs and investors (etc) are generally full of themselves.
When in Rome...
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing I can't understand is why Facebook is still around. But, at the same time, Twitter is still around, too. I guess people got tired switching platforms.
If I want to communicate with a bunch of my friends, going back 30 years, it's where I have to go. I could, I guess, go back to running mailing lists or manual methods of keeping track of contact details and sending things directly to people. But short of that there's no easier way for me to keep up with friends who are distributed around the planet.
What's wrong with keeping contact details and sending things directly to people?
Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, I just want my heads up life display because...why not? Assuming that your heads-up live display contains a public facing camera here's: Why not! I don't like sitting in a bar (or a strip club, or in any other semi-public, or even public dodgy or non-dodgy place) and you hang there with your heads-up live display recording my image. I don't like the fact that it's uploaded to some tech behemoth' server for furth…
Those bars and strip clubs already have plenty of CCTVs, you are being recorded. Police have body cams, cars have dash cams, almost every phone has a camera capable of taking video, the chance that you are being recorded if someone wants to is already very high. A glass cam will probably work out the same way CCTV has: people are worried about the potential for privacy abuse, but in the end these fears don’t come to…
Sigh! Where to start? OK, let me give it a shot.
Luddites complained about the automated loom as well
Now that's a really bad case of whataboutism. I'm not complaining about technological advance. I'm complaining about tech, which is a massive invasion of privacy. Have you ever been lying on a beach and some asshole lets his drone flying around? I don't know about you, but I really don't fancy to be half naked on some cretin's social media feed without my consent (which, needless to say I didn't give and would never ever provide).
Those bars and strip clubs already have plenty of CCTVs, you are being recorded.
I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that if such an establishment uploads the feed to the internet they'll go out of business mighty fast. In addition I don't have cops hanging around semi private places constantly recording what's going on in such places.
Those establishments may have a justified use, namely security, for such tech. You don't.
almost every phone has a camera capable of taking video
That was one of the more stupid arguments used by glassholes. When you whip out your phone and start recording that's obvious as hell. Not so, when you do it by a wearable.
people are worried about the potential for privacy abuse, but in the end these fears don’t come to pass
Actually they are very much. There were umpteen stories about glassholes using their gizmos even in places that explicitly banned their use. They then had the nerve to complain publicly about "ludites" that deemed this unacceptable.
Here's a search for you:
"privacy abuse google glass"
It yields 53’900’000 results. If just one procent of one procent involve actual stories of real privacy violations that's a massive invasion of societal privacy for ones own gratification. And that's exactly what's completely unacceptable.
You're free to believe in your techno utopia and that it only leads to progess and betterment of humanity.
I think you're wrong and believe my arguments to be sound as proven by the last 20 years and the rise of those tech behemoths and their constantly shitty behavior.
Calling me a ludite and using tech, which truly benefited humanity to make your argument makes you, in my opinion, intellectually dishonest.
And that's where I'll close my argument, since it's pretty obvious that we'll never agree.