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Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by bebb »

squigz wrote: post #88
bebb wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good example. People have been fired, reprimanded, blacklisted from their field, harassed and stalked for publicly objecting to the gender identity viewpoint. It somewhat reminds me of the tactics scientologists used to suppress dissent. I'm glad that era is starting to come to an end now.

It's really not coming to an end. People still look silly for talking about things like "the gender identity viewpoint" as if it's just a matter of opinion.

It is in the UK. Perhaps it's different in other parts of the world.

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by kgwxd »

Clearly phrased to take advantage of the "controversial opinion" for clicks. "I wish people would publish more" is what they mean, but that's not interesting. Can one even "be public"?

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by WahyuS002 »

I resonate with the "honeypot for nerds" sentiment mentioned by others here. There is a distinct difference between "being public" as a performance (influencer style) and "working with the garage door open." The author seems to be advocating for the latter.

I've found that publishing raw notes, half-baked projects, or niche interests acts as a high-quality filter. It might not get mass engagement, but the few people who do reach out are almost always high-signal connections. The fear of surveillance is valid, but the cost of total obscurity is missing out on that serendipity.

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by wkat4242 »

yesbabyyes wrote: post #96
sshine wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they farm your identity, they do so whether you post online or not. The only way to not contribute is to practice no identity. In that case your biomass still serves as a battery somehow (the movie fails to explain the physics here.)

As I heard it explained, the original manuscript had the humans kept alive because the Matrix was actually running on the humans' brains as the computing substrate. This both made much more sense than humans as a power source, was more horrific, and a better story. Apparently this was deemed to hard for the unwashed masses to understand, and we were left with this battery analogy instead.

Huh interesting. It makes also much more sense then to have some humans have the ability to change things in the Matrix, considering it was basically running on their brains.

The big question in that case though is why? Why would the AIs keep a simulation of the old world?

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by michaelhoney »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #31
nospice wrote: post #17

If you're on the internet long enough, I think you learn that openness has plenty of downsides. You indirectly interact with tens of thousands of people and in that set, there will be people who don't wish you well, sometimes for reasons you can't even grasp. In the 1990s, I used to put my phone number in my .signature file. I've come to regret that. In the 2000s, I participated in relatively large online forums unde…

I've been posing online with my real name since the 90's because if forces me to self sensor. I don't say things on the internet that I wouldn't say to people in the real world who know where I live. I think the internet would be a lot nicer place if people were held accountable for the things they say and do.

Same: I decided c. 2000 that it was better to be the real me everywhere and to live with the benefits but also the restrictions. I am probably a kinder, more constructive person for it.

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by avaer »

As interesting as such a world is to the author, the post fails to appreciate that the beneficiaries of such a world won't be us, but AI companies that hoover this data, pollute it with "alignment", and sell it back to us.

As well as nefarious government actors.

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by shimman »

wkat4242 wrote: post #104
yesbabyyes wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I heard it explained, the original manuscript had the humans kept alive because the Matrix was actually running on the humans' brains as the computing substrate. This both made much more sense than humans as a power source, was more horrific, and a better story. Apparently this was deemed to hard for the unwashed masses to understand, and we were left with this battery analogy instead.

Huh interesting. It makes also much more sense then to have some humans have the ability to change things in the Matrix, considering it was basically running on their brains. The big question in that case though is why? Why would the AIs keep a simulation of the old world?

Matrix lore is quite cool, if you haven't seen the Animatrix check it out. The Second Renaissance is great world building!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8RunvBRZ8 (first part)

To answer your Q tho, this was in one of the sequels I believe, basically the first iterations of the matrix were like "Eden" but humans couldn't adapt to it so they redesigned and iterated it into what you see in the movie. The idea being that if humans weren't busy they'd realize they were enslaved so they had to make a system to keep humans occupied and stimulated enough to be useful.

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

RiverCrochet wrote: post #97

> I will often find a blog post on Hacker News that really resonates. And when I go to check the rest of the site there’s three other posts. And I think: I wish you’d write more! I really miss that period in the 90's and early 2000's when: - people were doing interesting things online and tending to those spaces regularly, - Google actually worked and it was easy to find those things, - Myspace/Facebook wasn't a thin…

Forums need to make a comeback. Kids these days not only don't know what they are, but have trouble understanding them when explained. I somehow feel like forums could catch on again if there were a shiny enough platform.

To that end, can anyone recommend any decent forum engines? Discourse's UI rubs me the wrong way, and it would be nice to avoid PHP/MySQL as dependencies in general.

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by peterspath »

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #108
RiverCrochet wrote: post #97

> I will often find a blog post on Hacker News that really resonates. And when I go to check the rest of the site there’s three other posts. And I think: I wish you’d write more! I really miss that period in the 90's and early 2000's when: - people were doing interesting things online and tending to those spaces regularly, - Google actually worked and it was easy to find those things, - Myspace/Facebook wasn't a thin…

Forums need to make a comeback. Kids these days not only don't know what they are, but have trouble understanding them when explained. I somehow feel like forums could catch on again if there were a shiny enough platform. To that end, can anyone recommend any decent forum engines? Discourse's UI rubs me the wrong way, and it would be nice to avoid PHP/MySQL as dependencies in general.

what's wrong with PHP/MySQL? I am not into web tech, so genuine curiosity.

Re: I wish people were more public

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Post by LeratoAustini »

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #108
RiverCrochet wrote: post #97

> I will often find a blog post on Hacker News that really resonates. And when I go to check the rest of the site there’s three other posts. And I think: I wish you’d write more! I really miss that period in the 90's and early 2000's when: - people were doing interesting things online and tending to those spaces regularly, - Google actually worked and it was easy to find those things, - Myspace/Facebook wasn't a thin…

Forums need to make a comeback. Kids these days not only don't know what they are, but have trouble understanding them when explained. I somehow feel like forums could catch on again if there were a shiny enough platform. To that end, can anyone recommend any decent forum engines? Discourse's UI rubs me the wrong way, and it would be nice to avoid PHP/MySQL as dependencies in general.

As someone who is sometimes on slow/spotty internet, Discourse's loading dots/circles rub me the wrong way. Like what are they *doing* for all this time while I wait for a page of relatively simple-looking HTML to load? I kept seeing these familiar coloured dots on seemingly disparate sites and it took me a while to realise they were all running Discourse.
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