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Citizens don't need to be aligned with eachother, but they should ensure that the government is aligned with the citizenry as a whole. Everyone should have the freedom to polarize in different di…

Large AI siloes, if allowed to exist, will bifurcate humanity. People who have a stake in those AI companies will no longer need the rest of the population to provide goods and services. We will split…

One step at a time. First the citizens ought to ensure that their own government is actually aligned with them.

It's a valid concern. Lazy idiots who take your work and then claim it as their own exist in the real world too. It's a social issue that requires a social solution. We need to actually enf…

This isn't true. The current birth rate crisis is artificially induced by the widespread production and use of birth control pills.[0] If you look at the fertility rate graph, it fell off a cliff…

Nope. In this case it's definitely birth control. Birth rate got cut in half when the pill was introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pi... I …

Of all the public online communities, you'd think HN would be capable of calling it the way it is. But I'm afraid it's been overrun by brainwashed ideologues as I've seen many time…

> Phrase things with the blame assigned accordingly. Your phrasing blames people for not becoming parents. A more accurate phrasing is '....because their wealthy elites are so greedy they mak…

It's a problem we chose to create for ourselves by inventing and socially normalizing 99% effective birth control. We've given ourselves the freedom to make the choice to have children consc…

The proposed "solution" will indeed protect against identity theft by non-state actors, but it would also give the government the power to lock you out of your job, your bank, your online ac…

The direction of society is the aggregate of our individual choices. I'm no expert on coordination, but I think we ought to start with ourselves and not spread misery like "your voice doesn&…

> Lucky you. There are fewer and fewer such banks out there. The trend is to route login and consequential interactions on the web through 2FA on a phone - and not TOTP, but push notifications sen…

This is surprising. Perhaps the Minecraft devs and community are dedicated and capable enough to prevent it from being enshittified by Microsoft. It might even be open-sourced someday.

It's not that an open platform can't succeed, but rather people are accustomed to closed platforms, so more resources went into perfecting them. The aforementioned players pushing for contro…

Speech is not comparable to nukes. Not even close. I don't want everyone building nukes in their garage because nukes kill people en masse in an instant, and I cannot counteract the effects of so…

Government propaganda is used to rile people up so that they're willing to kill eachother in war. This is indeed a default throughout history but I don't think it's a good default and w…

I don't mean there's a single centralized moderating authority overseeing everything, but rather the general tools and mechanisms used for moderation on the Internet are centralized and unde…

Yes. Indulging in that desire to boss over other people (and also hubris, thinking oneself knows better) was fine before social media because it was hard to have a say over what others hear at scale. …

More polarization is good if people are allowed to naturally polarize in different directions. Alignment between individuals are supposed to emerge naturally, forming small groups that are internall…

I think the causal relationship is not quite that way. better connectivity -> destroyed physical limits on group size -> groups not only get larger but also more ideologically homogenous because…

Before the Internet and social media, groups had a practical size cap because they had to meet up in person. Polarization was naturally limited. I don't think the social media companies' alg…

The server can deliver a sparsely randomly sampled RSS feed of embedding vectors and metadata. Fetch media after ranking on-device.

There are multiple providers of Adblock lists. It would be like that, not single-provider. Regarding banning server-side moderation, we probably can't do it without decentralizing content deliver…

We need to ban the platform from recommending at all. It would be like more sophisticated Adblock. There are many providers of Adblock lists, but they can't be provided by the platform itself.

The problem isn't connectivity provided by the Internet or the average number of friends. Those things are good on their own. The problem is centralized moderation in an infinitely connective env…

The fact that a repost got so many upvotes means the post has a lot of value, but many missed it previously. Perhaps it would be better to allow reposts to collect karma as usual so they would have a …

> Turns out a lot of people's creativity is limited to what someone else has already made. This describes the vast majority of creative works and is therefore a significant part of how we defi…

Allow me to make one important distinction I forgot to do in the previous reply: there is a difference between conflicts that arise from delusions vs conflicts that arise from preferences. The former …

There is no longer an echo chamber besides the one a person creates for themselves, which people may choose to do. It would speed up the rate at which individuals become delusional. But once a certain…

I think this current wave of low social cohesion and authoritarianism is caused by recent technological advances. Indeed, this phenomena I'm about to describe is a precursor of war, but the causa…