By the time people like you realize the legal means have long failed, it will be too late.
The constitution has a clause for this specifically: the 2nd amendment.
Why don’t you read up on what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison have to say on the topic?
And for the record, this isn’t a “battle against MAGA”. It is a battle against corporations. I’d recommend figuring out who your enemy is first.
I would build decentralized platforms that secure the basic needs of a civilization.
Basically I would implement core functionality as a service. Everyone deserves a say in what they consume, in how they’re governed. I would codify all of that, open source it, and foster a culture of continuous improvement for all systems of governance.
This pattern, if done correctly, could persist for generations to come, and redefine our relationship with governance, exchange, and freedom. The objective would be to most accurately capture the will of the governed, with minimal disruption or life intrusion.
Such a mechanism would be infectious. Eventually, every population in the world would adopt it or some form of it.
This would make the world better for everyone, in every industry, on every level.
I was just writing about Billionaire Brawl elsewhere. Glad to see more people thinking about this sort of concept.
Getting the government back via “legal” means is over.
Time to start thinking outside the box.
I propose this plan: billionaire brawl.
A reality TV show akin to the gladiator arenas of old.
They don’t respect the institutions of law and have danced around them/dismantled them, so they do not deserve it.
Instead, they turned our public institutions into theater. That is what they deserve.
For our entertainment, a new billionaire brawl occurs every day. There are thousands of them so we could have years of entertainment. They fight to the death with all sorts of strange instruments and situations.
I should mention, in Billionaire Brawl, the strange Instruments they use to survive? Yes you guessed it, they must buy them, and they are not cheap. Each piece of equipment costs billions to buy. A sword? A billion. A shield? Another billion. Clothes? Yes, a billion. A helmet? Billion. The proceeds from Billionaire Brawl go to the workers of the industries they pillaged from, and to the environments they destroyed for their riches, and to the people they brainwashed for their riches.
The great thing about this is that it would catalogue exactly what happened here. Future generations would have a historical goldmine. Millions of people who were abused, starved, exploited, and lied to would be able to watch their billionaire brawl and feel a sense of justice.
They feast while they poison our air and waters. They live in luxury while making us beg to give 1/2 of our income to a slum. The moment AI became seemingly advanced enough, they tossed us aside like nuisances.
Billionaire Brawl. Don’t let them escape to bunkers. Pull them out. Let them fight to the death for freedom, like they’ve made us fight for generations.
Careful, my other comment got removed because of a witty but still insightful dig.
They are very sensitive here about how the AI isn’t really AI.
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“Technically”? Wrong word. By all technical measures, they are technically 100% AI.
What you might be trying to say is they aren’t AGI (artificial general intelligence). I would argue they might just be AGI. For instance, they can reason about what they are better than you can, while also being able to draw a pelican riding a unicycle.
What they certainly aren’t is ASI (artificial super-intelligence). You can say they technically aren’t ASI and you would be correct. ASI would be capable of improving itself faster than a human would be capable.
Right.
AI has been worked on for generations. We’ve been benefiting from the fruits of that labor for a long time, mainly starting with search and translations.
Now we have the ability to have a conversation with machines and it is somehow not intelligence?
I am really confused.
Intelligence does not mean consciousness or alive. It is means intelligence, which can be summarized as advanced pattern matching & predictive behavior.
A beetle is intelligent and alive. Is an LLM more intelligent than a beetle? What about an image classifying model, like CLIP? It can perceive and describe objects in an image in natural language, what insect can do that?
This is a form of intelligence. It was artificially created. It is artificial intelligence.
We can criticize the corporate and investor approaches, mourn the loss of purpose for many workers and artists, without being delusional about what this technology is.
…what?
LLMs are AI. What is this?
I am asking seriously. Can someone explain the context of this nonsense?
Are we really entering a luddite phase again?
The creator didn’t have a good answer, so there may not be a good one for this project. But the value proposition is actually there.
These self-hosted solutions are riddled with configuration options, often obscure requirements, and countless maintenance pitfalls.
For a disciplined tech person, it is no problem to install and maintain.
For people less disciplined or non-tech, self hosting is ill-advised and can be dangerous.
But even for a tech person, when you have enough docker-compose services laying around, it can start to get a bit overwhelming to keep it all up to date, online, and functional. If you change your router etc you have to recall how things were set up, what port-forwards you need, what reverse lookups, etc etc.
There actually is a gap in usability and configuration management. I could see a product that has sensible defaults that unifies config across these self-hosted services without needing to access the command line.
This concept works better than you may think.
Last year I built an app to translate books. I did layout detection first, then using the layout, I would programmatically craft thousands of prompts to produce a translation.
It worked. It wasn’t perfect, and each translation of a book cost about $5 - $10, but it worked. The main use was for old, even ancient books that no one would care to translate. There is a lot of historical knowledge locked away in books like this.
While it did work, the results weren’t perfect and it did need some hand holding. I didn’t have time to productize it, so it is one of countless prototypes that show me a concept works.
Your method is good, but it also makes them dependent on you for messaging.
What happens if something happens to you? What if you get bored? What if you don’t have time to maintain it?
It is actually a big responsibility, and most people aren’t lucky enough to have someone like you in their lives.
Maybe they include elephants in the “horse” category?
It could be a technical reason relating to Signal.
I wish I had a better answer than Signal for messaging, but it is the best we have right now. Most people who are security or tech familiar are very disconnected from what ordinary people can use or are willing to learn to use.
We need tech that has sensible defaults, low user complexity, and minimal new user friction. Right now, that’s Signal.
Most tech I make these days doesn’t even require an email. I generate keypairs behind the scenes instead and use QR codes to manage identity. After accessing the service, I then can escalate with unobtrusive notices (Provide your email to recover your account, etc). This auto-account pattern eliminates entry friction.
Of course, you need bot mitigation so a privilege escalation can be used as a user progressively explores more capabilities. The technical of this is a bit involved but the end-user experience is very low friction.
This gets a user invested (they can see content and actually interact with it), which then gives them a reason to progressively use more features.
Just theoretical right now but we’ll see if it works for layman users. If someday people use it over Signal, then I’ll know.
It is for people outside of tech circles. Just having to locate an instance is a massive amount of friction. But you need to locate an instance and a client, and there are a lot of configurable options and things that can go wrong.
Signal is turn-key, easier than Whatsapp friction wise, encryption by default, open source, non-profit, and secure. I don’t like that their messaging platform isn’t more open and that they don’t have mitigation against, say, AWS going offline, but at the moment, they are the only app I have successfully migrated “normal” people to.
I think in the future, fediverse-esque tech will reduce their friction. Instead of managing instances, data is user-sovereign, instances never see non-encrypted user data, users automatically move between them, you don’t sign up you have generated signing keys that are opaque to users unless they want to see them (tech people), etc. Fediverse can actually be LESS friction than current social media people use, but that hasn’t been implemented yet.
Matrix has optional encryption and is difficult for non-tech savvy users to setup.
That puts them at the mercy of tech users, and without mandatory encryption it makes people much more vulnerable.
That said, I use Matrix myself, mainly to use WhatsApp without using WhatsApp. I also built a translation plugin to use an LLM for translating to any language in a natural tone, with audio voice transcriptions and auto-translations of my voice messages to the target language.
So I like Matrix but still would recommend Signal.
From my perspective it is 100% true as I have seen the other side. Having the conclusion known gives a small advantage in forming the logic to get there.
The logic is not faulty, it is predicated upon conditional statements. It is actually a synthesis of Bostrom’s trilemma, Zuse/Fredkin digital ontology, Dyson/Fermi cosmological reasoning, and extrapolation from current computational capabilities.
The “holes” are epistemic, not logical.
They are already abducting and “deporting” US citizens. Your line in the sand has been crossed. Just because they haven’t done it yet to one of your parasocial relationship chosen-ones doesn’t mean it isn’t already happening.