I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness
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#2I love the $1 billion and will be buying a Tesla Roadster with spacex compressed air launch and cyber truck.
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#3I do not miss working for Jack Dorsey. My life is a lot calmer since I left.
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#4Well, as long as it is run centrally, it can never be "global consciousness". Even if you trust Musk to run it in an open and transparent fashion, there is no guarantee that this will continue to happen after he's gone.
The same forces that control the media (corporations, states) will continue to control Twitter policing. The idea that everything that is legal will be allowed on Twitter is great in Musk's head but it will be circumvented by shadow laws in the name of "national security" or "protecting the children" or something similar... and not necessarily in a transparent way because they can be marked "confidential"... and if Twitter fails to comply, the forces will get rid of it... or worse, those who run it.
The only foolproof way to ensure free speech is to run it fully decentralized. It doesn't have to have unlimited history... one can archive important tweets if necessary.
If that becomes successful though, the forces may target those who maintain the system... so they need to remain anonymous but give control to the community as soon as possible so that the system can continue to live even if they die by suicide with two bullets on the back of their heads.
Also, if that successfully happens, the chipmakers will be targeted because the only way to fight the people will be to stop production of computers. So, that needs to be reasonably decentralized first.
Fighting the globalist cartel and truly giving voice to the people is much more difficult than Musk and his followers in the issue seem to think.
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#5Well, as long as it is run centrally, it can never be "global consciousness". Even if you trust Musk to run it in an open and transparent fashion, there is no guarantee that this will continue to happen after he's gone. The same forces that control the media (corporations, states) will continue to control Twitter policing. The idea that everything that is legal will be allowed on Twitter is great in Musk's head but i…
> run it fully decentralized.
and yet, such a thing is already possible - in fact there's plenty of choices. None of them have taken off for various reasons.
I really don't believe a decentralized system works as the network effect fails to achieve domination under such a system (aka, competition from centralized network will out-compete it).
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#6I do not miss working for Jack Dorsey. My life is a lot calmer since I left.
Care to elaborate?
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#7>For the first and only time in my life I became political. Days and nights would pass with me monitoring the Senate on farcaster cable or lying tapped into the All Thing. Someone once estimated that the All Thing deals with about a hundred active pieces of Hegemony legislation per day, and during my months spent screwed into the sensorium I missed none of them. My voice and name became well known on the debate channels. No bill was too small, no issue too simple or too complex for my input. The simple act of voting every few minutes gave me a false sense of having accomplished something. I finally gave up the political obsession only after I realized that accessing the All Thing regularly meant either staying home or turning into a walking zombie. A person constantly busy accessing on his implants makes a pitiful sight in public and it didn’t take Helenda’s derision to make me realize that if I stayed home I would turn into an All Thing sponge like so many millions of other slugs around the Web. So I gave up politics.
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989
Re: I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness
#8Well, as long as it is run centrally, it can never be "global consciousness". Even if you trust Musk to run it in an open and transparent fashion, there is no guarantee that this will continue to happen after he's gone. The same forces that control the media (corporations, states) will continue to control Twitter policing. The idea that everything that is legal will be allowed on Twitter is great in Musk's head but i…
> run it fully decentralized. and yet, such a thing is already possible - in fact there's plenty of choices. None of them have taken off for various reasons. I really don't believe a decentralized system works as the network effect fails to achieve domination under such a system (aka, competition from centralized network will out-compete it).
I don't mean decentralized as in run by small communities. I mean decentralized as in not run in anyone's server... like how Dapps run on Etherium.
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#9vomit
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#10If Twitter is the closest thing to a global consciousness we are all doomed as a species.
How can someone even claim this? Twitter is a cesspool, I thought people on Twitter knew this. But apparently not.
That being said, it is @jack who is saying this. So I'd take it with a massive tablespoon of salt.