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The surveilance works also in reverse. Black Lives Matter wouldnt be there if there wasnt the masses surveil the supressors. Alot of technology benefits are no

The surveilance works also in reverse. Black Lives Matter wouldnt be there if there wasnt the masses surveil the supressors. Alot of technology benefits are non visible today- but imagine any nasty event- and notice how a lot of the implicit knowledge of a society would survive today- encoded in videos, automated tutorials and wikipedia articles. And it even makes kind of sence. Investing into "Leaps" forward can fail in a thousand ways, investing into measure that prevent society from falling down completely and allow fast recoverys, well that is something that can become usefull a hundred times over. Its like a dice where one in nth sides gives you a chance to leap forward - and 0.5*n of all sides have a chance you must step permanently back. Removing those sites of the dice from the scenario tree, is statistically OP though not really cool to watch. The only thing currently not OP is how companys research is directed towards local optima. There are no big attempts to lift whole areas of endavours in feasability. Actually, if i had the whole picture- i would guess that humanity is currently on some sort of golden path.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
> Alot of technology benefits are non visible today- but imagine any nasty event- and notice how a lot of the implicit knowledge of a society would survive today- encoded in videos, automated tutorials and wikipedia articles. Let's be fair here. If a nasty event caused us to lose power grids globally for a year, we'd lose 99% of that knowledge (preceded by mass starvation of high-double-digits of the western population). Digital data is fragile. Hard drives have lifetimes measured in years. Even optical and flash drives have practical lifetimes (in actual use) of under two decades. The whole thing works only because data is not at rest for long - it's get copied over all the time, as our economy pumps out hard drive after hard drive after hard drive (hell, the same thing applies to CPUs, RAM and displays these days). Everything is so tightly interwoven together, that it starts to resemble a living being - you can't pause it. That's, BTW., the reason I strongly believe our global priority everywhere should be preservation and stabilization of the technological civilization we have. Itself, it's not rebootable - if it fails now, if we get kicked back to pre-industrial-evolution levels (through e.g. 3rd World War, or environmental collapse, or both), we'll be stuck in them for millenia to come, waiting for Earth to replenish all the easily accessible high-density energy sources, that are all gone now. We are on a golden path, but it's a tightrope - we need to focus on balancing ourselves and getting to the other end, instead of getting distracted by random trivia and amplifying every single thing that is not exactly right for someone.

TeMPOraL 9y ago

> Alot of technology benefits are non visible today- but imagine any nasty event- and notice how a lot of the implicit knowledge of a society would survive today- encoded in videos, automated tutorials and wikipedia articles. Let's be fair here. If a nasty event caused us to lose power grids globally for a year, we'd lose 99% of that knowledge (preceded by mass starvation of high-double-digits of the western population). Digital data is fragile. Hard drives have lifetimes measured in years. Even optical and flash drives have practical lifetimes (in actual use) of under two decades. The whole thing works only because data is not at rest for long - it's get copied over all the time, as our economy pumps out hard drive after hard drive after hard drive (hell, the same thing applies to CPUs, RAM and displays these days). Everything is so tightly interwoven together, that it starts to resemble a living being - you can't pause it. That's, BTW., the reason I strongly believe our global priority everywhere should be preservation and stabilization of the technological civilization we have. Itself, it's not rebootable - if it fails now, if we get kicked back to pre-industrial-evolution levels (through e.g. 3rd World War, or environmental collapse, or both), we'll be stuck in them for millenia to come, waiting for Earth to replenish all the easily accessible high-density energy sources, that are all gone now. We are on a golden path, but it's a tightrope - we need to focus on balancing ourselves and getting to the other end, instead of getting distracted by random trivia and amplifying every single thing that is not exactly right for someone.