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Metal Gear Solid 2, to be specific. A game shockingly ahead of it's time.
Wow, that was written, what, 20 years ago? Sounds precisely about today
[0] https://kotaku.com/shinzo-abe-assassin-killer-kojima-greek-n...
The fake news problem is huge on twitter now, as if it could not get worse. I've seen people unashamedly post stuff that is literally false, not something false in a satirical or parody sense. It's becoming increasingly hard to separate fact form fiction. It will get to the point where in which the determination of truth is by some consensus process online in by competing fake or unreliable sources.
(I mean, a little bit since the Musk era, but that's more because of his politics, they were happy to already use it during the "Trump era", and even before, you would have thought the situation was clear about Twitter being a cesspool in 2013 already ? Imagine if they used 4chan the same way !)
Here's the point I think keeps getting missed in these discussions: monopoly. Why are we worried about social media? Because it's a system made by and for a small number of companies. We worry about how well these companies will bear the responsibility that new technology creates for them. Why do they have that responsibility in the first place? Why doesn't that responsibility belong to you or me or any of the other…
What do you mean by this?
I think this is an opportunity for traditional news networks to re-emerge as trusted news sources, by reporting only true and verified events. The days of going on social media looking for news are over, when people can quickly spin up fake articles with photos of some famous landmark on fire or in ruins it becomes too frustrating to discern between fact and fiction.
Here's the point I think keeps getting missed in these discussions: monopoly. Why are we worried about social media? Because it's a system made by and for a small number of companies. We worry about how well these companies will bear the responsibility that new technology creates for them. Why do they have that responsibility in the first place? Why doesn't that responsibility belong to you or me or any of the other…
> billions of us have zero leverage over what ideas and narratives we participate with. What do you mean by this?
This is in contrast to traditional forums where moderators participate in the forum alongside the rest of the users.
In a traditional forum, a moderator probably started out as a regular user. On Facebook, they were either hired labor, or written by Meta's software team.
Coincidently I just listened to this talk yesterday by Nita Farahany and got some shivers. https://www.aspenideas.org/podcasts/who-can-track-and-hack-o...
I would like to see podcast services provide transcripts by default. I rarely have time to listen but I would gladly read.
The fake news problem is huge on twitter now, as if it could not get worse. I've seen people unashamedly post stuff that is literally false, not something false in a satirical or parody sense. It's becoming increasingly hard to separate fact form fiction. It will get to the point where in which the determination of truth is by some consensus process online in by competing fake or unreliable sources.
> The fake news problem is huge on twitter now Not really, considering the community notes generally call it out falsehoods very quickly. What a great system - Don't censor people, but do call them out for BS. Twitter is better than ever now, and people can finally get all the info to form their own opinions.
I think this is an opportunity for traditional news networks to re-emerge as trusted news sources, by reporting only true and verified events. The days of going on social media looking for news are over, when people can quickly spin up fake articles with photos of some famous landmark on fire or in ruins it becomes too frustrating to discern between fact and fiction.
Do people really want to wait for their news though?
Something I don't see talked about often here is the nature of human feedback reinforcement learning and it's effect on models like GPT. I think a lot of people are under the impression that this makes the models lie less and say things that are more accurate. The actual effect is that we've built an AI model that was trained to give humans convincing output. This is, imo, incredibly dangerous to the health of the in…
Some good points from Raskin about the entangled relationship between the freedom of thought and the freedom of expression. But then regarding recommender systems and generative AI, I think he is saying pretty much what Lessig was saying earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999405
So, I think this doesn't fly. Lessig is trying to extrapolate rules for a broadcast medium (magazines, newspapers, tv) onto a decentralized peer-to-peer medium, and it just doesn't work. If you have my IP and I have yours, we can share information without requiring an intermediate data broker. What Lessig is advocating for would make all ISPs, DNSes and backbone providers, the defacto gatekeepers of an essentially de…