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I love this article for how it gets the thinking, and I love your response. I've been aware of similar dynamic in politics, where the collective action/intelli

by patcon 1y ago

I love this article for how it gets the thinking, and I love your response. I've been aware of similar dynamic in politics, where the collective action/intelligence of the internet destroyed all the old signals politicians used to rely on. Emails don't mean anything like letters used to mean. Even phone calls are automated now. Your words and experience matter more in a statistical big data sense, rather than individually. --- This puts me in sci-fi world-building mode, wondering what the absurd extension is... maybe it's just proving burned time investment. So maybe in an imagined world where LLMs are available to all as extensions of thought via neural implant, you can't be taken seriously for even the simplest direct statements unless you prove your mind sat and did nothing (aka wasted it's time) for some arbitrary period of time. So if you sat in the corner and registered inactive boredom for 2h, and attached a non-renewable proof of that to a written word, then people would take your perspective seriously, because you expended (though not "gave") your limited attention/time to the request for some significant amount of time

spencerflem 1y ago
There's a 1992 modern art piece that was a blank canvas that the artist promised they spent 1000 hours staring directly at https://www.mirandawhall.space/1000-hours-of-staring/ https://www.mirandawhall.space/1000-hours-of-staring/
djoldman 1y ago
Politics is the OG bad system. Because politicians literally write the rules of the system, it's incredibly difficult to prevent abuse, bad incentives, and inefficiency. One of the most fundamentally broken aspects of the US system is that: 1. politicians stay in power by being elected. 2. people are not required to vote and casting a vote incurs a cost (time, travel, expense), therefore not everyone votes. 3. politicians just have to get the votes of the fraction of people who actually do vote and can ignore those who don't.
- antisthenes 1y ago
  Politicians are just an extension of the ruling class. Under capitalism, that is large capitalists. What may seem like abuse and bad incentives to YOU are perfectly aligned goals for THEM.
- Xss3 1y ago
  We could fix those issues and create some new ones with direct democracy via blockchain voting. Want a bandaid for people voting randomly? Throw in a randomly (llm?) generated question about the policy they're voting on and if they get it correct, showing some rudimentary understanding of the policy, they can vote.

by patcon 1y ago

spencerflem 1y ago

There's a 1992 modern art piece that was a blank canvas that the artist promised they spent 1000 hours staring directly at https://www.mirandawhall.space/1000-hours-of-staring/ https://www.mirandawhall.space/1000-hours-of-staring/

djoldman 1y ago

Politics is the OG bad system. Because politicians literally write the rules of the system, it's incredibly difficult to prevent abuse, bad incentives, and inefficiency. One of the most fundamentally broken aspects of the US system is that: 1. politicians stay in power by being elected. 2. people are not required to vote and casting a vote incurs a cost (time, travel, expense), therefore not everyone votes. 3. politicians just have to get the votes of the fraction of people who actually do vote and can ignore those who don't.

antisthenes 1y ago
Politicians are just an extension of the ruling class. Under capitalism, that is large capitalists. What may seem like abuse and bad incentives to YOU are perfectly aligned goals for THEM.
Xss3 1y ago
We could fix those issues and create some new ones with direct democracy via blockchain voting. Want a bandaid for people voting randomly? Throw in a randomly (llm?) generated question about the policy they're voting on and if they get it correct, showing some rudimentary understanding of the policy, they can vote.