Friendica exists, and it’s part of the Fediverse. It’s not going anywhere.

Consent? Ethics? How about fuck you! —those “researchers,” probably

Cue the worship of the “Master” that sends them holy shit a la “Reason” by Isaac Asimov.

I’m just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.

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Sure! It’s an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It’s amazing that it’s come back so strongly into modern vernacular.

Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!

“They don’t mean me,” was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.

Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.

I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.

“Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”

Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.

Land doesn’t vote. Chicago easily outnumbers the population of the rest of the state. Illinois might be red without Chicago, but that doesn’t mean they’re the majority just because they are spread out over the remaining area.

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No, I understand just fine. You’re ignoring the part where I said rights aren’t actually fundamental or intrinsic. They’re privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.

In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren’t innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.

If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.

Nope. If you intentionally cause harm to others with said rights. See my reply to someone else who made a similar assumption.

https://reddthat.com/comment/18075681

let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.

I don’t see how that’s possible unless you use a system that’s resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government’s power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.

Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?

Oh? I’m not that familiar with his comedy, but I probably should get to know it. What little I know I like!

I prefer the platinum rule of humanism, but essentially, yes.

All rights are privileges, if we’re going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away. Society tends to operate on an unspoken, collective agreement that certain rights should never be violated, but if they were actually intrinsic, we wouldn’t have to fight tooth and nail for them.

I’m a moral relativist, so if someone is happy to abuse their right to privacy to harm others or otherwise take their rights away, especially the right to privacy, I don’t feel any compunction to draw a hard line and say that the harmful person deserves to keep those rights in spite of their actions.

Good. Privacy is a fundamental right, but since that platform is regularly used to doxx people who are simply trying to exist, in addition to platforming and incubating some of the most harmful ideologies, they’ve relinquished any claims to those rights to privacy, as far as I’m concerned.

We need a single source of truth for this.

So distribute it, like DNS. Have the CVE Foundation be the final authority, but relying solely upon them makes me uneasy.

The CVE Foundation might currently be independent from the US government, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still subject to its whims. I think people underestimate just how awful things are or could get here, and “why is the government doing that stupid/heinous/bizarre thing” has become a daily mantra for many.

CVE needs better protection from hostile governments, and distributing the system seems like the only way to achieve that