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Exactly. The real world is comprised of data, and the more we restrict it to private interest, private interest gets to reap more benefits. Information is only

Exactly. The real world is comprised of data, and the more we restrict it to private interest, private interest gets to reap more benefits. Information is only leverage against you if it's not public.

david_at 8y ago
Absolutely! It's funny that the words they use, "dystopian", "doomsdayish" etc. etc. ... are all from fiction. these are literally categories of genre-fiction. They're trying to make straight faced predictions about the future using what is literally in the book store under "Fiction". Something that is by definition not real, a fabrication, a lie. How can they possibly expect me to take them seriously or grasp what it is that I'm doing? They've taken stories they know are fake and mapped them to the real world. How is that any different from religion? I'm giving them mathematical arguments and they're giving me Dr. Seuss. That's messed up. Well, Hitchen's Razor says that, "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence". Here's my razor, "What can be asserted with fiction can be dismissed with fiction". This is a bulwark against those who insist on living in a world of fantasy and superstition. But for the rest of us, those who want to live in reality, I'm giving you the real world.
david_at 8y ago
Yes, this is what I mean on the site in postulate '3. Data Symmetry' by a "scorched earth policy". Someone can't use it unilaterally as exclusive leverage if everyone else knows it too. From wikipedia: "A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location". There's no unilateral benefit to hording valuable data about the natural world because Grassland's AI independently causes information inflation.

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Exactly. The real world is comprised of data, and the more we restrict it to private interest, private interest gets to reap more benefits. Information is only

by thecupisblue 8y ago

david_at 8y ago
Absolutely! It's funny that the words they use, "dystopian", "doomsdayish" etc. etc. ... are all from fiction. these are literally categories of genre-fiction. They're trying to make straight faced predictions about the future using what is literally in the book store under "Fiction". Something that is by definition not real, a fabrication, a lie. How can they possibly expect me to take them seriously or grasp what it is that I'm doing? They've taken stories they know are fake and mapped them to the real world. How is that any different from religion? I'm giving them mathematical arguments and they're giving me Dr. Seuss. That's messed up. Well, Hitchen's Razor says that, "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence". Here's my razor, "What can be asserted with fiction can be dismissed with fiction". This is a bulwark against those who insist on living in a world of fantasy and superstition. But for the rest of us, those who want to live in reality, I'm giving you the real world.
david_at 8y ago
Yes, this is what I mean on the site in postulate '3. Data Symmetry' by a "scorched earth policy". Someone can't use it unilaterally as exclusive leverage if everyone else knows it too. From wikipedia: "A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location". There's no unilateral benefit to hording valuable data about the natural world because Grassland's AI independently causes information inflation.