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The will to dominate others is as old as human kind. The idea that computers have changed anything is just historical blindness of the part of people who fail t
by monochr 12y ago
The will to dominate others is as old as human kind. The idea that computers have changed anything is just historical blindness of the part of people who fail to realize how totalitarian all states were until the French revolution, where you had a literal thought police going after you and huge parts of the population spying on everyone else.
Like it has always been the case any algorithm good enough to catch even a minority of people with behaviour X the government of the time doesn't like will have so many false positives that it will be useless.
The fact that after 7 million years of human evolution people can still lie to others when the cost for this was often survival makes me skeptical anyone will ever be able to make sense of the mess of ideas in someones head by the very limited number of actions they can observe in the real world.
- abdullahkhalids 12y ago1. The point is not that they can. The point is that they believe they can. 2. Historically, there was always a place to hide to carry out nefarious activities. In the digital surveillance state, that space is shrinking. (Modern humans 200K years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens)
- monochr 12y ago>The point is that they believe they can. They are welcome to believing that, just as the Catholic Church is welcome to thinking I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity for not believing their god.