How so? AI is not smarter than people.
Even when it becomes smarter than humans in the future, I would still oppose this idea. We humans have seemingly benevolent leaders who become malevolent. At least we can replace them as they are around as smart as us. A malevolent creature that is waaay smarter than us that rules over us? No thanks.
Well technically you could also have crypto banks which pull the same shit. The advantage of blockchains is better security and integrity.
I'm not entirely sure what your getting at here, but git can be run as democratically as a crypto currency where the canonical version of the project is the one with the longest chain.
Which means elections. Which means a dude/committee in charge of a server. See the problem?
I'll believe it when I see a real implementation. I think the problem is anonymity, I don't see how we can set a system up such that the results are auditable but also impossible for anyone to tie a specific vote to a specific person.
This is a very very interesting topic that I've spent a rlly long time thinking about. I wish I had more energy to go in depth for this. The gist is this:
There will be a tradeoff between anonymity and "vote buying".
You can have absolute anonymity by implementing a monero like blockchain. Each registered voter address gets one token. The thing that you can cast a vote for is also an address. The voter sends this token to an unknown address (that theoretically belongs to the voter themselves). Then, the voter votes from this address. This way, absolute anonymity is maintained as noone knows who sent the token to the address in the middle. BUT. I could buy votes like this too. I could bribe a voter to send their token to the middle address, which I control.
To prevent voter buying, you can have an open blockchain where all transactions are visible to everyone. However, you get pseudo anonymity here. Every registered voter address gets one token like above. No one except for the election commission knows which address belongs to whom. So while the election commission cannot manipulate votes, it can leak who voted for whom.
Now that being said, normal elections aren't as theoretically anonymous as well. For ballots, your name is on the envelope. A compromised election commission could leak this info as well. For EVMs, one line of code could leak who you are. The person granting you entry can note down your information. The EVM can ping this person as to which vote was cast while you were in there.
Hence, in my opinion, the second option of the open blockchain is the best one provided that the election commission is under strict regulation (which it generally is in any case).
Agreed completely. Usage of AI is a political issue. The tech can be used both for the good and bad. However, just because it can be used for the bad doesn't make the tech bad.
Development in nuclear science made a bomb that could end civilisation. It also gave us a pathway to solve climate change. How we use the tech should be an issue. The tech itself shouldn't be.
Most people dislike crypto due to the severe negative environmental impact it has on the world.
I dislike cryptocurrencies for the same reason. I never said I support them. However, I like the tech behind blockchains. I believe that there are legitimate use cases for blockchains. There are many different implementations of blockchains that circumvent proof of work (the environment damaging thing).
As for AI, are you defending the plagiarism machine or the art theft machine? I just fail to see how stealing writer's and artist's livelihoods to create a dystopian society where creative expression is replaced by soulless machines is a good thing. There is a world where this isn't a negative, however in this late-stage capitalism world we live in, artists and writers are being layed off in exchange for AI.
Again, I agree with you. Capitalism sucks. AI and capitalism combined suck even more. However, this does not make the tech behind AI inherently bad. As you said, there is a world where this isn't bad. There is a world where advancements in AI can be put to very very good use. I want to see that world. This is why I support (and have contributed to) the development of open sourced AI models. I want public ownership over models. While open sourced doesn't exactly mean this, it's the closest that we can get to it.
Honestly the real disappointment here is you.
Sick burn brah... I need some ice for that burn brah
Lmao I'm pretty sure there's a video of me saying "I am a pedophile" in Polish on someone's phone. I was on Omegle, and came across this group of teenage girls. We were talking about languages and stuff, and they asked me to say something in Polish. It was goddamn hard and I couldn't make out a word. The only word that I could make out was "pedo" something something. Aaaaand they were recording me.
I did ask them about this, and they denied it of course. However, they didn't seem to be making fun of me or anything. They seemed to be very nice and stuff. Idk, perhaps it was just an innocent cultural exchange. At least I like to think that it was. But uk... You can't (and shouldn't) trust anyone on the internet n stuff...
And I love you 🥺
I peed on it. I am not a dog.
Yes.
Saying "don't kill kids is antisemitism"?
The integrity of blockchains isn't immune from malicious activity. It is just way way harder to be manipulated. No blockchain means 1 server needs to be manipulated. Blockchain means more than 1 servers need to be manipulated.