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  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • You have a lot say on this. Its good that someone thinks about these thing. I'm sorry that I can't really provide you with a good discussion. I don't know enough about markets etc and I don't want to spend too long online.

    I agree that can't really stamp out openness and anonymity online (which is beautiful in a way) but I think that will mostly be reserved to technically capable users in the cracks and niches of the web who can navigate the restrictions. This is a massive tragedy.

    This brings us to the current state of the web with age restrictions popping up everywhere, deanonimization etc. I think that we are in agreement regarding where it is going. Where you think we should be heading. I'm sure you have opinios on that

  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • I read one of your blog posts about empathy this mornjng. It resonated with me and my recent views on the world.

  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • Thanks for explaining your thoughts. So to paraphrase you: you are saying that the market and by proxy, nations too, Are still adapting to the concept of the internet. One way to cope with the effects is to restricted access?

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  • The internet can mostly die as far as I'm concerned. Just roll it back to file servers again, or something like gemspace. But being able to talk with people across cultures, borders freely is really important. It's a tragedy that all these people will be hurt by the dystopification of the web. The new web needs to have a safe way to converse socially that is safe and easy enough to use for lay people. I have so much more to say on this, but real life is calling so I'll leave it at this.

    I don't really get your point about markets though. I'm genuinely trying to understand, so bear with me. This is what I got from your post:

    Our market has coexisted with an extremely fast global communication network for decades now. Given that the market feels like a quite organic thing, on what authority is the market not meant to coexists with the internet?

    I think that internet access is restricted because of technological constraints, a technological lag in rolling out higher speed infrastructure, and a the lack of demand for that access which is driven by technological and practical constraint. Some complex function of those factors haha. Still, I don't really know what you are trying to get across.

  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • It took me an embarrassingly long to get the joke. I forgot what the original thread was.

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  • Everyday the internet gets a little worse. I hate it here in this technological hellscape. I have more to say, but this bullshit makes me so so tired. Goodnight.

  • Child’s Play: Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

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  • After contemplating on this: These companies that seek to eliminate thinking, spit in the face of agency. They call themselves agentic yet seek seek to kill all agency and authenticity in the users of their products which is contemptible enough.

    We should all be more like Donald Boat.

    If we can't change the material conditions that let these losers play with money and toys then we can at least hold them in cultural contempt.

  • Child’s Play: Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

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  • A bit long, but well written. It read like a novel, quite enjoyable.

    What a fucking world

    A world of non-thinkers

    At least Donald Boat found some wisdom.

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • Thanks for your comments. I agree with everything you said especially that these traits are desirable for broader life IRL. In a way the web culture is a reflection of our own cultures just more mixed, extreme, amplified and with a good dose of parasociallity. I desperately want people to break free of their cycles. Think, talk, discuss, empathize and form communities, use your free will for good damit. These are the real antidotes that will enable the cultural shift that will allow us to reject the smothering of the human spirit in the current way of life.

    Anyways, it is a terrible thing that there is an armsrace to be authentic. This really ought to be solved on the user registration side. And also yes, saying something profound with hidden meaning through creative intuition is great, I write poems sometimes. But its not the solution to authenticity online.

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • Haha you did not answer my questions, but you are clearly passiinate about this vision and I like that. As I understand it you describe a sort of moral credit that has value within the community that hands it out. So I imagine that a board would mint these tokens? What would these tokens buy you?

    We will grant that most in the community will be commited to the cause so they will want to participate, but other than respect, why and what should I grant/sell you (you having some credit) for helping the cause. Couldn't I just grant my effort to the cause directly? I get the renown aspect, but we also have commemorative mission patches pins and stickers for that.

    So in short, I am not questioning the renown/trust mechanism of a moral credit system, but I am questioning the monetary function.

    Don't take this a rejection of the idea, the rebirth of the internet has to start somewhere and that might be here by visionaries.

  • What do you think life will be like in the future?

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  • Yes! After winter comes spring, and who knows what that may bring. It is the belief in a better world that brightens my days. Even if hope can't heal everything it might heal some and that is enough for me.

    We are not powerless agents! Use your free will to shape a better world. Unironically: live laugh love.

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • Thanks for the elaborate write-up, it's good to engage in discussion about these things. An electoral system seems quite elaborate, but I would love to see it work. It would require quite active participation by the users, and I am not convinced that smaller instances would have the active user base for this. Even so, the idea is quite appealing.

    Vetting good faith users is indeed one of the difficult problems. We could make better captchas maybe. For example taking some pictures of household objects in certain orientations. You could also check the exif flags to check if they line up with known cameras or something. Just an idea.

    I like your idea of social credit/karma, but I have some questions. So imagine that an instance can hand out these social points and so can another instance. How would we equate the value of one system to another? What is stopping my instance from minting a bunch of social points and giving them to me to elevate my "trustworthiness" in your instance?

    I also had an idea for a trust system based on belief systems. So as per Decartes I know that I am (real), and I have met some people IRL that are also real, so whenever they message me, I have a high degree of trust that they are not bots. I would also feel relatively inclined to trust the friends of my friends, with that trust decaying as we move down the friend chain. You could sort of make a "trust tree" where you would be able to see how many trust steps you are removed from IRL validation. You could even weigh the scores and downgrade someones trust score in the tree if it turned out that one of their contacts turned out to be a bot or something like that.

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Genuine discussion and meaningful interactions make this a better place.

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • How would we defend ourselves from such a bot flood though?

    Let's say that we start to become competitive with one of these big tech companies user wise. What is stopping them from destroying the fediverse with bots by sewing dissent, hate and slop?

    Perhaps the answer to such a scenario would just be to splinter, defederate and sort out the bot issue with better user registration.

    Happy to hear your thoughts.

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  • We are the web. There is no web without the we.

    It is ultimately humans who add value to the internet. We can make decisions, take action, have bank accounts, bots for the most part still can't. If we keep growing, there will come a time where swaying opinions, impressing advertisements or driving dissent will reach that value/effort threshold, especially with the effort term shrinking more everyday

    I think that we are genuinely witnessing the end of the internet as we know it and if we want meaningful online contact to persist after this death, then we should come up with ways that communities can weather the storm.

    I don't know what the solution is, but I want to talk and think about it with others that care.

    On the individual level we can maybe fortify against the reasons that might make someone want to extract that value.

    • Being a principled conscious consumer makes you a less likely target for advertisement
    • Avoid ragebait and clickbait, and develop a good epistemic bullshit filter along with media literacy, this makes it more difficult to lie to you, or to provoke outrage.
    • Unfortunately, be selective with your trust. How old is the user account? are the posting hours normal? does the user come across as a genuine human being that values discussion and meaningful online contact?
    • Be authentic and genuine. I don't know how else to signify that I am real (shoutout to the þorn users)

    I would love to hear what others think.

  • I feel bad for people who say "I can't" when they mean "I won't".

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  • We wake up in our cells and dress in limitation

    To deprive ourselves of action and causation

    Can't or won't we see that we rob ourselves of agency?

    Why waste our will with can't where we could won't?

    So don't say that you can't.

    But do say that you won't

    And I will know that you will will

    For where there's a will, there's a way

    And who knows where you may stray

  • cant take it anymore

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  • You are right my friend. But i'm afraid that this might be at odds with annonimity online. These micro communities might look a lot like this, just more restrictive on the user registration side.

    I can imagine that we may have a federated community of human verified forums. Where you have to go to the computer club at least once to get a forum account.

    Anyways, the death of online truth and authenticity gives us a tremendous opportunity to reinvent what online contact should look like. But inevitably, it will be more outside and less online I think.

  • cant take it anymore

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  • Yes it sort of feels like online ecosystem collapse. Between all the insincerity, ads and slop. Very few online places feel alive :(

  • cant take it anymore

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  • Well Yes!

    AI is utter shite at poetry. Its the only proof of humanity I can convey over text except for swearing to show my humanity

  • cant take it anymore

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  • Glad to be here, witnessing the death of the internet as we know it here together. I'm pretty sure most of you are real so let's enjoy the show together before we all go outside again!

    As the internet lay dying I wondered if I should be crying A great gift to mankind is losing it's mind

    Should we stay? Said the friends we made along the way

    Who are we without web? But who, is the web without the we?

    Even as we grieve and leave

    Remember.

    There is no web without the we And where we go the web will be

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    Enlightenment

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    I rulemember

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    Goths rule you know

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    Know the truth...

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    NPK is horrible for soil biology anyways rule

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    Todler rule