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As a technical matter, the 1s and 0s can be made to do all manner of things, so: sure. TFA's point, to summarize radically, is that the individual and the soci
by smitty1e 7y ago
As a technical matter, the 1s and 0s can be made to do all manner of things, so: sure.
TFA's point, to summarize radically, is that the individual and the society remain in tension. Society tends to crush the individual.
But I'm more sanguine. I submit that humanity is a saturated, agitated solution with societies precipitating and breaking up continually.
What's to be feared is the loss of agitation, but that's beyond our scope, so do your best where you're situated.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> As a technical matter, the 1s and 0s can be made to do all manner of things, so: sure. To make it explicit in context of: >> This would also prevent/discourage abuse for exchanging c/p or movie torrenting. Usenet is a system very similar to e-mail in terms of data exchange format; both are textual and originally intended to exchange plaintext. Both developed convenient forms of encoding arbitrary binary data. Today, Usenet is in fact used for piracy, and I wouldn't be surprised if c/p was present on some groups too.
- smitty1e 7y agoMore generally: technology is mechanism; evil is agency. Doubtless someone can name the fallacy surrounding efforts to produce a closed-form technical solution to matters of agency. Minimize? Sure. But as long as Bad Actor can fog a mirror, the potential for evil is present.