I mostly agree with both of you, but I’ve known about Moloch, slack and legibility for a while now, and wrote my comment in spite of that, so to speak.
The problem with building your own environment is that you’re still inside the old environment. It’s difficult to escape from society and live in the wild because there’s so little wild anymore. You can’t buy your own island and make your own rules on there. Anything you can create, really, is built with bricks manufactured by other people, and they make sure that their bricks have microphones and backdoors, and that you’re only really paying for a subscription to the bricks.
Life likes flexibility, but I think we’re building brittle systems inside which little movement is tolerated.
Measurement is the act of making something legible that was illegible before, to count something in the tally which you were blind to previously
What if they’re not discovering something old, but rather creating something new? Lets say somebody scammed me, but I was happy about the trade. It would only be the moment somebody else tells me “you got scammed” that I’d feel hurt about it. And even if I didn’t get scammed, I’d still suffer if somebody told me I had been. If it’s not things which harm us, but the idea of them, which suggests that interpreting something as bad makes it so. So actions that you’re doing now, which are currently completely harmless, might be interpreted as harmful in the future by one of the systems you’re embedded within.
And what if you love your son with a magnitude of 514 and your daughter with a magnitude of 410? Would you even want to know?
Finally, Revenge porn, doxing, and looking into peoples bedroom windows are all illegal, but they’re just the transfering of true information. This suggests that unlimited collection of information is not a strictly good thing, and this is still not a very common realization. By the way, the arguments I use here are very different from my previous comment, so reading one of them will not help much in understanding the other
I mostly agree with both of you, but I’ve known about Moloch, slack and legibility for a while now, and wrote my comment in spite of that, so to speak.
The problem with building your own environment is that you’re still inside the old environment. It’s difficult to escape from society and live in the wild because there’s so little wild anymore. You can’t buy your own island and make your own rules on there. Anything you can create, really, is built with bricks manufactured by other people, and they make sure that their bricks have microphones and backdoors, and that you’re only really paying for a subscription to the bricks.
Life likes flexibility, but I think we’re building brittle systems inside which little movement is tolerated.
What if they’re not discovering something old, but rather creating something new? Lets say somebody scammed me, but I was happy about the trade. It would only be the moment somebody else tells me “you got scammed” that I’d feel hurt about it. And even if I didn’t get scammed, I’d still suffer if somebody told me I had been. If it’s not things which harm us, but the idea of them, which suggests that interpreting something as bad makes it so. So actions that you’re doing now, which are currently completely harmless, might be interpreted as harmful in the future by one of the systems you’re embedded within.
And what if you love your son with a magnitude of 514 and your daughter with a magnitude of 410? Would you even want to know?
Finally, Revenge porn, doxing, and looking into peoples bedroom windows are all illegal, but they’re just the transfering of true information. This suggests that unlimited collection of information is not a strictly good thing, and this is still not a very common realization. By the way, the arguments I use here are very different from my previous comment, so reading one of them will not help much in understanding the other