“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
George Orwell, 1984.
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I'm of an opinion that this is why AI is all the hype now. Ability to generate plausibly-looking image of anything. Making everyone a schizophrenic, basically, because nothing can be trusted.
A footage is made of A country militia massacring a town belonging to a minority - oops, there's a similar footage of that minority's guerillas doing the same. You can't decide what's true and what's not by just looking at it.
Except the way we observe the universe, looking at the same object different ways, via gravitational lenses and different frequencies and differentiated over time by parallax, angular size and what not.
(I'm not an astrophysicist, not even interested enough to assemble some willpower to get my knowledge right.)
That's why there should be only one Web, no other hypertext systems, one very complex and potent set of standards, one ecosystem of computing, one paradigm of software distribution, one chain of production of these complex systems. This doesn't mean no competition inside those paradigms, it's fine. But none outside.
You should look at the reality only via the same channel, same in the sense of being augmented similarly in all dimensions.
Now, my conclusion of this is that such a system will eventually lead to an escape from one big trap the humanity has been building up for itself since around 1990. There are things people learn and things people don't learn. Not trusting such a media environment is something they do learn. Even a freer and more enlightened society can emerge from that - once again.
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Wherever books are burned, men also, in the end, are burned.
-Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
It feels like the world is collapsing around me.
Oh, don't you worry. It only feels like that because it absolutely definitely is collapsing around you. 😊
I often wonder if Hideo Kojima is actually a time traveller as it feels like we are living through the MGS series. With AI and government propaganda and control measures it feels like we are at the MGS2 phase
The Verge is an absolute pile of flaming dog shit, but a broken clock is right twice a day.
Has Wikipedia made it to the outside?
He did this last time too.