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I guess that depends what you expect from society and government. Do you expect that everything runs like an extremely powerful well oiled machine, where 100%
by ostenning 5y ago
I guess that depends what you expect from society and government.
Do you expect that everything runs like an extremely powerful well oiled machine, where 100% interoperability likely means complete surveillance? A seemingly technocratic dystopian reality where every impulse is quantified and catalogued? I think its naive to believe that governments don't want more money, power and control over its citizens and government likely will be extracting more with every optimization the system makes.
Or would you rather an extremely powerful machine that is disjointed, highly flawed and laden with inconvenience in-so-that society doesn't really know who you are? Where the individual has more freedom and liberty, but as a result there is more crime and less "safety". A world where powerful anti-social forces are at play, such as disinformation campaigns, polarization of discourse, fringe movements and revolution.
The commonality is they are both driven by technology. We have built an extremely powerful machine and that has introduced enormous complexity into our society.
This complexity equates to entropy and either we pull it together with draconian government policy, or the system unravels.
- argomo 5y agoQuestion: how will the free/liberal society (plagued by polarization, etc) fare against the dystopian ones? In the past we've been able to out-innovate and maintain moral leadership thru a fictional aspiration to democratic norms. Now state actors can run finely targeted propaganda campaigns and measure our engagement with them in real time while using extensive censorship measures to prevent us from doing the same to their populations. None of this invalidates your point, but the tables have been tilted and abstract discussions of freedom tend to avoid wrestling with the geopolitical ramifications.