You are assuming that the market place of ideas selects for correctness rather than virality.

We might get a bit closer if our communication tools encouraged correctness rather than virality.

Which they never will without some central power because the (economic)market selects for virality when it comes to communication tools.

The action of that central power will be called censorship.

You could also try to have some guarantee of interoperability to reduce network effects and thus make the market effect weaker and reduce the selection for virality. That seems like something we could try.

I mean, so were pretty much all of the best people in history. That's not a great filter for finding the next hitler, is it?

But I would guess that if you added up all the contributions of the people most passionate for making the world a better place, the bad far outweighs the good.

That would be a bold supposition, I think.

Recognizing that all people are, well, people would be a good first step on the road to ensuring that we dont all not become paperclips, right?

for sure yes; treating people like people not robots or cattle or employees, just other humans who have needs, wants, and emotions.

Yeah, I immediately started humming along with Johnny Paycheck.

Imagine being a senior researcher at the peak of your career, working for 6 months to a year on a paper, submitting it to a top tier conference, getting accepted, then getting the pointy haired boss do-what-I-said-peasant treatment.

Big nope.

It can be used that way, but it doesn't have to;

If I understand correctly, putting the votes on a single blockchain would protect the tally the same way it protects against double-spend attacks.

Make it screen-reader friendly. The modern web sucks for the visually impaired!

> For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned.

I would suggest that this is not true.

Which statement are you suggesting is not true? That a ban would not happen in response to that assertion?

Yes

Look buddy, it is natural for an NP-Complete problem to be outside of your comfort zone (probably).

e: well? he's polynomial

Well, that's not exactly fair; it does make testable predictions, which is nice, and they should be the kind of thing that we would notice anyway (IIUC) as we get bigger and better tools, which makes it cheap to test, which is also nice.

I agree that it's probably not THE ANSWER, though!

Whoa, slow down there, Satan.

?? What?

Blood Meridian has dark moments in the narrative sure, but it’s a beautifully written book and very easy spaghetti western adventure to get lost in before bed. It’s not like you’re dozing off reading The Necronomicon, c’mon.

It's my favourite book but it's hardly easy-reading for many people. It's grim and would challenge a few people I bet. I could read writing like that about the desert forever, but not everyone is so inclined.

I think everyone should read it, but I can also appreciate an "easy there, Satan"-type joke about it!

Yeah, I've read most of Cormac McCarthy's books, but I've never gotten past the first 50 pages of Blood Meridian. Even compared to Child of God, it just hit me in the wrong ways whenever I read it. Still hoping to get to it someday though!

Commit to it. It's sublime.

Last one I read was Suttree while over in the US camping in the South-East.

I never thought I’d hear someone call Blood Meridian a “spaghetti western adventure”. Makes it sound like The Magnificent Seven!

I meant to say spaghetti-ish, but edited it out to fix some grammar and forgot to put it back. So it goes