I often wonder if/how radical transparency would solve our current problems and how much would impact on the life of every single person. Well, what’s sad for me the most is that many people would not care.
Unfortunately truth is not always the answer that people look for.
Decentralisation leads to distribution of responsibilities. But people, who take important decisions (through voting) don’t have time to dive deep into the current problems.
That’s why we grow up with a “believe” mindset instead of critical thinking. We should check the sources of articles, compare them and form our opinion. But we don’t, cause this requires time.
In the meanwhile, decentralisation of publication expanded accessibility to information worldwide but did not reduce the path to quality of information. Like in the past, if you want the quality, you need to search.
Deepfakes and the technical manipulation of contents may be fought by developing new tech solutions (already companies working on it) and a bit of common sense.
The problem imo is that the evolution in tech and science requires years while our mindset needs generations to change.
I think our society is not appropriately structured to solve these problems.
I don’t know how we’ll solve them but I think that we need a disruptive change in the everyday lives of people so they could spend more time to learn. This will require time.
In the meanwhile the best that we can do imo for our future generations is to make sure that history is not manipulated, changed, deleted. Immutability of events is the most precious resource they’ll have to learn from the past.
That’s why the SafeNetwork is so important
Not just ignorance, but selfishness. Many people don’t want the truth, they just want confirmation of their bias. They want something and like to make excuses to themselves as to why they deserve it; truth has little to do with it.
People are rational and will do what they can to improve their lot and the lot of those they care about. This is natural and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Thinking that presenting them with logic and truths will change this is fundamentally misunderstanding how people function. Self preservation and improvement trump all else.
That is the rationale behind classical economics: people making rational choices.
I beg to differ, people are irrational (and that is the rationale behind behavioral economics).
But self-preservation through selfishness has worked so far in a world with scarce resources. Selfish behavior in a world of abundance would become a cancer of the system.
I admit that it may be a hopeless exercise to think that people might adapt to a new behavioral paradigm, but… we must try to instill to the next generation that cooperation and sharing is the next evolutionary step for the next stage of human development.
Yep, most people will be trapped in echo chambers as they only hear what they want to hear, and current algorithms of automatical curation based on your online behavior will exacerbate such echo chamber.
Finding like-minded people is paradoxical as it is comforting but also isolates groups, fueling the us vs. them mentality.
Which begs the question: How would the ideal social network work? What kind of structure, guidelines, checks, balances, etc. would make it workable, useful and long-lasting? What is missing in the current environments? What singular thing about the Safe Network could the ideal social network capitalize on that would make it infinitely better than what we have now in Twitter, FB, Instagram and the like?
FB doesn’t ban political spam but they do ban crypto spam as they launch their own crypto. If there was one spyware-spam company that couldn’t be trusted with a crypto currency it would seem to be FB. FB always seemed like a cover for domestic spying as in legalize it by just making the apparent private sector appear to do it first.
Heard South Dakota just opened up a tax haven.
Laugh if Libra becomes dominant and it breaks the system of tax evasion.
I suppose one can do the same on Safe ? Nothing prevents me to publish some information on the network if I have access to that information. It may be even more difficult to remove the info once published , depending on how it was done.