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Why not just let everybody make multiple accounts? Spam? We need to remove the incentives that make people send spam. If there is universal healthcare nobody wo
by captainmuon 3y ago
Why not just let everybody make multiple accounts? Spam? We need to remove the incentives that make people send spam. If there is universal healthcare nobody would bother selling viagra online. Harrasment? We need to work on reducing sexism in general. And so on.
I feel that sometimes the direction where technology "wants" to go points us to a better society. Fighting it and preserving the status quo leads to a lot of difficulites. The techno-optimists of the 90s had a good point.
If we imagine a world where almost every service is free, has an API, and little restrictions, the society that allows that is going to be much nicer than if everything is behind a paywal, controlled and sanitized, and cryptographically verified.
- yreg 3y agoI don't care about multi-accounting, but I care whether the other users on a platform are human or if 99% of them are bots.
- captainmuon 3y agoMy point is, why do people set up bots? They are probably trying to get money. Looking at it naively through a system designer's goggles: Fixing it at the platform level by verifying if a user is human or not is fixing it at the wrong level. It's just a band-aid. We should instead fix it at the societal level so that nobody has the incentive to set up a decieving bot.
- yreg 3y agoI can't see eliminating all desire to lie, spread disinformation, propaganda, scam people, astroturf, manipulate opinions, cheat at videogames and so on WORLDWIDE being feasible at all this century, perhaps ever. Ending all wars and conflicts forever is one of the many prerequisites. Somewhat-AI-resistant techniques to prevent bots from overrunning a platform seem at least feasible.
- jt2190 3y agoMultiple accounts don’t help when you’re moving money, because you need to trust that you’re moving money to the right person, and verifying even a single account is difficult. Making everything free doesn’t solve this since we still have to move goods to people who need them without fear that they go to scammers instead.
- lxgr 3y agoYes, threat models are probably going to be vastly different in a post-scarcity society (and we’re not only talking money/natural resources scarcity). If you know of a workable way to achieve that, please do share it!