Harassment for twenty years unchecked, backed by technology. Ignored and discredited. My wealth has been dispersed. Thus, google had enough info to conclude my suicide is probable.
I will die one day. Humanity and the AI it creates will survive. My reports will be studied after I am gone, and compared to the private data accumulated.
For instance, few people have one time pads and much data will be eventually decoded. I’ll be vindicated.
My goal at this point is to add value to the species before departing.
It helps to explain the whole “if you talk about what happened on the north shore, you’ll never get another job in this town again”. Translated to “silicon valley runs a data mafia for sale to mercenaries” with a personal anecdote of being harassed/gaslighted in public in part with info from a private Facebook message
This stuff ruins lives. “Dumb fucks”
Burn them to the ground. Or, more likely, have the cia silently partner up
I’m literally preparing for my suicide now by giving away all of my money, after years of being harassed by strangers. The incident in August 2015 that was related to my Facebook private messages was one of many, but was particularly insidious and caused significant damage to my life.
It’s highly likely that data has been for sale behind the scenes, readily available for malicious actors, making players like Facebook complicit in ugly shenanigans.
Please understand the downsides of information technology. It can be abused to hurt others in ways you may not have foreseen. I’m unable to withstand being harassed any further, and the harassment is 100% enabled by infotech. The Facebook shenanigans will hopefully serve as a prime example of the dangers of free information sharing by malicious actors.
> It’s highly likely that data has been for sale behind the scenes
I would say it's a near certainty. Not saying that Facebook the company was selling data under the table, but one corrupt or extorted sysadmin in the right place is all it would take.
I’m far beyond that. Already saw eternity (to whatever degree it can be shown to a mortal) over two decades ago. Being shown a glimpse of infinite fear/pain and infinite pleasure as divergent paths of existence changed me, not for the better in terms of leading a meaningful life. I’ve been dreaming of being dead since then.
I am very thankful and relieved now that the end is in sight.
It’s likely the commenter would like the used market to be flooded with supply, driving prices down in order to buy cheap and still have a budget for the kung fu grip gpu.
Unchecked algorithms at scale have already had a significant and often detrimental impact on society.
A solution is to break up and/or regulate FAANG sufficiently such that algorithmic regulations do not impede David’s from reasonably competing.
Or, such regulations could also be targeted at bigger players past a certain size, and not apply as strictly to smaller scale applications. It is the broad scale application of an algorithm that often facilitates its ability to be effective, after all.
Alternatively, we could stop pushing for government regulation of absolutely everything considerably possible. The desired culture of micromanagement is not productive.
The phrase "unchecked algorithms at scale" does not mean anything, it's just written to look scary.
Now the discussion of breaking up (or regulating) tech companies appears to have expanded to Apple and Netflix (re: FAANG) for some reason.
How about manipulating front page content to harass an unsuspecting user, juxtaposing public info such as an affiliation that’s documented on Wikipedia with content intended to gaslight the victim?
Earlier, popular content had links to endless malware.
Reddit always has been a cesspool. It’s simply symptomatic of a much broader societal cancer. I’m confident we will root out such problems in time, though.
This is representative of the fundamentally primitive nature of humanity. We are pathetic creatures that aim to bring others down, like crabs in a bucket. We harass and hurt each other insidiously with varying degrees of subtlety.
That we need to rely on technology for such behavioral control is indicative of a broader fundamental issue with the human condition. Take away safe spaces, consequences and so on, and a sufficiently nontrivial subset of humans will revert back to primitive and malicious behaviors.
I’ve found myself to be utterly disgusted by human existence. That such a thing even needs to be built reminds me of why I am glad to have never procreated, for the risks of misery are significant and random. Life is a craps shoot even when the odds are in your favor.
For all of the progress we’ve made as a species, these domestication tactics have ended up making our species more weak.
I do not support these initiatives, but then again I don’t support Instagram fundamentally. Humans will evolve with technology, but I’m afraid we will build in ways to ensure that the weak survive.
Doesn’t quantum mechanics leave open the possibility that our universe is fundamentally probabilistic?
Also, how can we say anything about free will when we have not come to grips with defining the hard problem? Of course, if you want to model biological processes based on deterministic physics then free will does not exist. I’m simply suggesting that the fundamental assumption that are universe is deterministic is flawed.
It really doesn’t matter if the laws of nature are deterministic or not. Consider the past. At no time did a die come up both two and five, nor did a photon’s wavelength collapse in two places. Why should the future be considered differently? Events in the future will happen one specific certain way – we just can’t know which way until they actually happen. But we don’t have to be able to (even theoretically) predict future events for those future events to still be fixed in a four-dimensional space-time.
> Doesn’t quantum mechanics leave open the possibility that our universe is fundamentally probabilistic?
Not really. A wave function propogates in a perfectly deterministic manner. There's not anything probabilistic baked into QM.
Probability comes in at what's called the Measurement Problem. Right now, we ad hoc apply the Born rule to project complex amplitudes into probability distributions whenever convenient, but there's actually no good understanding of why the Born rule works at all. It's just sorta tacked onto QM at this point.
I will die one day. Humanity and the AI it creates will survive. My reports will be studied after I am gone, and compared to the private data accumulated.
For instance, few people have one time pads and much data will be eventually decoded. I’ll be vindicated.
My goal at this point is to add value to the species before departing.
Thanks.