“and quickly starts to replace both Fox News and other news sources among members of all political parties.”—if this is plausible, it’s not clear to me, and while I’m not a great predictor of the human race, I’m pretty damn smart. More importantly, your story doesn’t need it; what it needs is just that Face News is useful and liked by a strong majority of people, like Google is today.
Murpt is a fun detail, but your story doesn’t need him either. Fasecure can become dominate in government systems over a period of years, without needing to assume bad politicians. It’s empirically a great system for cybersecurity, after all. It can start at the state level. Few people besides the AI safety nerds (who, I’ll grant, by now have realized that nanotech stories don’t seem to resonate with the general public) seem to be raising a fuss about it. Elon Musk tweets some concerns, but he’s too preoccupied with mars to do much else. There are plenty of non-billionaire computer scientists who are concerned, but they look at how the careers of earlier computer scientists have fared after speaking out, in the wake of ridicule from famous academics that followed, and that triggers enough doubt in their perspective, or simply short-sighted self-interest, that they mostly keep quiet.
Would love to read more stuff like this, and would be happy to help!
This is awesome! A couple suggestions:
“and quickly starts to replace both Fox News and other news sources among members of all political parties.”—if this is plausible, it’s not clear to me, and while I’m not a great predictor of the human race, I’m pretty damn smart. More importantly, your story doesn’t need it; what it needs is just that Face News is useful and liked by a strong majority of people, like Google is today.
Murpt is a fun detail, but your story doesn’t need him either. Fasecure can become dominate in government systems over a period of years, without needing to assume bad politicians. It’s empirically a great system for cybersecurity, after all. It can start at the state level. Few people besides the AI safety nerds (who, I’ll grant, by now have realized that nanotech stories don’t seem to resonate with the general public) seem to be raising a fuss about it. Elon Musk tweets some concerns, but he’s too preoccupied with mars to do much else. There are plenty of non-billionaire computer scientists who are concerned, but they look at how the careers of earlier computer scientists have fared after speaking out, in the wake of ridicule from famous academics that followed, and that triggers enough doubt in their perspective, or simply short-sighted self-interest, that they mostly keep quiet.
Would love to read more stuff like this, and would be happy to help!