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As someone with a stalker, I can't emphasize this enough. A stalker will go to all sorts of lengths to do bizarre shit. People don't believe it. I would guess g
by blagie 4y ago
As someone with a stalker, I can't emphasize this enough. A stalker will go to all sorts of lengths to do bizarre shit. People don't believe it. I would guess governments will do some equivalent there-of.
Democratizing access to things -- including bad things -- has a preventative effect:
1) I can guard against things I know about
2) People take me seriously if something has been democratized
The worst-case scenario is if my stalker got her hands on something like deep fake technology before the police / prosecutor / jury didn't knew it existed. I'd probably be in jail by now if something like that ever happened. She's tried to frame me twice before. Fortunately, they were transparent. She'll try again.
Best case scenario is that no one has access to this stuff.
Worst case scenario is only a select group have access, and most people don't know about it.
Universal access is somewhere in between.
- RobertRoberts 4y agoI want to second this, as there are so many people that just simply can't believe how much time and energy some people will put into destroying someone else's life. And when you ask for help, people think you are the insane one because they simply can't believe your story about the insanity of someone else. I hope you find relief sometime from your stalker. I found it (not a stalker exactly) from letting the person burn themselves with their behavior so many times without me doing or saying anything in return to them (my strategy of non-direct conflict, and it worked for me), that eventually they ran out of people to manipulate and fool.
- Moru 4y agoA worse situation: What if you ARE insane, it's just that this time it's not your imagination running wild, it's actually someone stalking you? People that have some mental problem, whatever it is, have a much harder time since no one will believe them. It's always just "I know you are feeling bad right now..." even though the diagnose is ADHD or something else irrelevant.
- HWR_14 4y agoYour "worst case" depends greatly on who the select group is. Is it movie studios making 9 figure budgets, or is it any obsessed person who can figure out how to find and install software. Obviously, it's hard to imagine many situations like that, but you can imagine a process that required a 8-figure quantum supercomputer.
- shostack 4y agoThis is too myopic a view. Think about how far graphics have come on mobile devices let alone high end gaming machines in the past 5 years. This technology will eventually be accessible in the palm of your hand via a powerful enough device or the cloud. It's more a question of when than if.
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- HWR_14 4y agoAt that point the select group will change. It eventually reaches a tipping point, but usually it starts with a small enough select group
- avereveard 4y agohistory say you cannot control how selected the selected group is, no matter the implications, i.e. nuclear bomb secrets from manatthan project finding their way into russian hands https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spies-who-spilled-atomic-bomb-secrets-127922660/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spies-who-spilled-ato...
- kmlx 4y ago> Democratizing access to things not to be too pedantic, but this is not "democratizing access", as that would involve print-outs/usb sticks/discs of the code distributed to people that can't access the internet, accessibility issues, bias considerations etc etc. as such, this is just "access".
- blagie 4y agoAthens, late medieval/early modern Poland, and the early US all had democratic systems of sorts where about 10% of the population, give-or-take, were in the electorate. Likewise, slavery < serfdom < caste / Jim Crow / etc. class system < equality under the law with discrimination < equality Access, inclusion, and democracy aren't binary concepts, and progress is gradual.