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I am an information totalist. The web/world would be a better place if ALL information was free and available to all. You could actually make informed decisions
by BoredPositron 1y ago
I am an information totalist. The web/world would be a better place if ALL information was free and available to all. You could actually make informed decisions for yourself without being played by anyone.
- teekert 1y agoSo you have a camera in your bedroom, streaming all the time.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoFeel free to share all your personal information if that is your preference. You don't get to have mine.
- BoredPositron 1y agoI thought the emphasis on ALL was pretty obvious in my initial comment.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoAnd I thought the refusal was pretty obvious in my reply.
- BoredPositron 1y agoYou made it personal while my statement is everything but.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoI'm not making it personal. In general, people who believe that all private information should be shared are free to make that decision for their data but not other people's data.
- baobun 1y agoIf you won't be the change you want to see by going first it doesn't seem like a sincere position. How can I get read-access to your home directory? Do you have an open sftp or want to set one up? Please post your IP and port here so we can take part.
- Aloisius 1y agoAll information? Including private thoughts?
- BoredPositron 1y agoAll of it. I believe the concept of private would vanish pretty fast. It would feel more like one consciousness.
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- Aloisius 1y agoThe Borg were supposed to be a cautionary tale, not something to aspire to.
- xp84 1y agoI can agree that this is interesting as a thought experiment, and indeed could form an amazing foundation for an ambitious work of fiction. But the only way to bring about such a world IRL would be by force, meaning that many people in such a society would perceive it as a highly oppressive state. To get the paradigm shift you're after, and a collective consciousness, you'd have to have buy-in from every member of such a society, and to raise children in the same principles. Perhaps it could be a civilization on an island, or the founding principle of a generational starship or something.
- nickslaughter02 1y agoI'm glad I will be long dead when this becomes possible. They WILL try no doubt.
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- throwaway494932 1y agoUntil the state itself makes an informed decision on you, based on you religion, political ideas etc, and you are no longer free to make any decision any more, informed or not. But more than that, even if you had all the information available, it will still be drowned in order of magnitudes higher amounts of counterfeit information, propaganda, lies.
- AlienRobot 1y agoHow much information exactly do we need to make people stop believing the Earth is flat?
- zelphirkalt 1y agoNo amount will suffice, to convince people to not believe what they want to believe.
- gausswho 1y agoPlease enumerate some of the benefits that would come from a world where such radical transparency was realized.