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May be employees of FAANG should read these archives. This will give them insight into how to design humane tech and avoid surveillance.
by jdk2020 6y ago
May be employees of FAANG should read these archives. This will give them insight into how to design humane tech and avoid surveillance.
- jacobush 6y agoHow the Devil reads the Bible...
- simonh 6y agoThere's a story that the soviet Communist Party actually circulated copies of George Orwell's 1984, not as a warning against how totalitarianism could go wrong, but as a manual for how to implement it more effectively. I'm not sure if there's any truth to it.
- 082349872349872 6y agoSeems unlikely to me, but Trotsky does provide useful background for Goldstein's analysis of IngSoc. https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch06.htm#ch06-4 https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch06.ht... Fun fact: only about 13% of the world of 1984 lives under constant observation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975900 Is the Room 101 fear of the "middle class" that they could be sent down to the "working class"? Young Blair (as Orwell was known then) and his classmates were surprised to run into a former classmate of theirs who had been rusticated — and seemed much happier for it.