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My main takeaway from this episode is that anonymity on the web is getting harder to support. There are some forums that people want to go to to talk to humans,
by jjfoooo4 8mo ago
My main takeaway from this episode is that anonymity on the web is getting harder to support. There are some forums that people want to go to to talk to humans, and as AI agents get increasingly good at operating like humans, we're going to see some products turn to identity verification as a fix.
Not an outcome I'm eager to see!
- alrs 8mo agoOne could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998.
- edoceo 8mo agoI think we could do something like that again. Need a reputation to follow you around. Humans need to know who they are dealing with.
- Terr_ 8mo agoI want that to be how things work, although recent history has not been favorable when it comes to Public Key Infrastructure as applied to individuals. Inconvenience, foot-guns, required technical expertise levels, the pain of revocation lists...
- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoIn a sense, it seems Accellerando got a lot more right than not ( reputation markets in this particular case ). We may be arguing over the best way to do it, but it seems that the conclusion was already drawn.
- Kim_Bruning 8mo agoHow is it that no one is noticing that it's the lobsters who escaped! How prescient is that? * http://www.accelerando.org/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html#Lobsters http://www.accelerando.org/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.h...
- Ancapistani 8mo agoUgh. If this isn’t part of Crustafarianism, it should be.
- Kim_Bruning 8mo agoAgreed! So I actually poked Steinberg and Stross. Sadly Steinberg hasn't read it, and Stross denies LLMs are a thing.
- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoTo be fair, it was something of a marketing master stroke to adopt claw as a symbol. Admittedly, it does make me uneasy the same way Kamala's writers dressed her up in Lisa Simpson's clothes ( episode when she is a president ), but... you have a point. We are a weird mix of pop culture memes becoming so intertwined it is hard to separate them at times.
- Ancapistani 8mo agoSomeone here recommended Accelerando about a month ago - I’m sitting in an airport now reading it. It’s… deep. Probably one of the two deepest sci-fi novels I’ve ever read, beat only by Blindsight. I’m not finished yet though, so that order could change :)
- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoI read it after Prime Intellect during my AI binge. I think the initial feeling I got from it was the same as I did during first read of Snow Crash. Familiar world, and yet everything is very, very different so you feel more like an explorer than anything else.