> by the right side
I'm pretty convinced that the secret to happiness is adopting the Asian philosophy that nothing is good or bad, it just is -- acceptance.
@sun It has its faults, but it's objectively useful for many use-cases even if it has a failure rate of ~10%+, as long as the user accepts that and accounts for it.
Most of the non-remediable issues are simply side-effects of the increased tool sophistication, particularly for those with little to no technical skills (i.e, spam, people using tools to create malicious content)
@sun Yeah, the spam problem is not going to get better. I mean, look at some of the Twitter bots. Some of them are pretty sophisticated (and existed before LLMs) in generating enough spam to drown out reasonable discourse.
It's demoralizing, but only highlights the importance of socializing primarily AFK and making (and maintaining) connections with real people.
The golden era of early Internet is ending, if it wasn't over years ago.
NAS has ~1.4k active accounts.
At $6 per, it would take a mere $8,400 to have sophisticated bots in equal proportion to legitimate users.
$33,600, $55 less than a new model Hybrid Honda Accord, buys you control of 80% of the network.
In practice, it probably only takes a percent or two to poison the well.
AI has significantly lowered the bar for creating linguistically passable bots.
It will continue to be abused.
There is no technical solution.
Acceptance is the only solution.
@sun Yeah, a social "web of trust"-like system (which I guess FoaF is -- I'd never heard of it) is probably the only way forward.
Though, I could envision a future where it's allowed to become bad enough (Problem, Reaction, ...) that the "solution" people clamor for is government-backed centralized identity online.
@sun lol, I guess you're more black-pilled about it than I am. What do you mean by this?
@sun @skylar @eriner @sapphire fwiw, we have smard card enabled ids and they are used by almost no one. might be because germans are usually pretty pro-privacy.
another thing i noticed: you probably want to have migrants which form subcultures. i think the millions of turks we have in germany are the best insurance against the state going full throttle authoritarian.