Harassment for twenty years unchecked, backed by technology. Ignored and discredited. My wealth has been dispersed. Thus, google had enough info to conclude my suicide is probable.
I will die one day. Humanity and the AI it creates will survive. My reports will be studied after I am gone, and compared to the private data accumulated.
For instance, few people have one time pads and much data will be eventually decoded. I’ll be vindicated.
My goal at this point is to add value to the species before departing.
I’m literally preparing for my suicide now by giving away all of my money, after years of being harassed by strangers. The incident in August 2015 that was related to my Facebook private messages was one of many, but was particularly insidious and caused significant damage to my life.
It’s highly likely that data has been for sale behind the scenes, readily available for malicious actors, making players like Facebook complicit in ugly shenanigans.
Please understand the downsides of information technology. It can be abused to hurt others in ways you may not have foreseen. I’m unable to withstand being harassed any further, and the harassment is 100% enabled by infotech. The Facebook shenanigans will hopefully serve as a prime example of the dangers of free information sharing by malicious actors.
It helps to explain the whole “if you talk about what happened on the north shore, you’ll never get another job in this town again”. Translated to “silicon valley runs a data mafia for sale to mercenaries” with a personal anecdote of being harassed/gaslighted in public in part with info from a private Facebook message
This stuff ruins lives. “Dumb fucks”
Burn them to the ground. Or, more likely, have the cia silently partner up
I’m far beyond that. Already saw eternity (to whatever degree it can be shown to a mortal) over two decades ago. Being shown a glimpse of infinite fear/pain and infinite pleasure as divergent paths of existence changed me, not for the better in terms of leading a meaningful life. I’ve been dreaming of being dead since then.
I am very thankful and relieved now that the end is in sight.
It’s likely the commenter would like the used market to be flooded with supply, driving prices down in order to buy cheap and still have a budget for the kung fu grip gpu.
Unchecked algorithms at scale have already had a significant and often detrimental impact on society.
A solution is to break up and/or regulate FAANG sufficiently such that algorithmic regulations do not impede David’s from reasonably competing.
Or, such regulations could also be targeted at bigger players past a certain size, and not apply as strictly to smaller scale applications. It is the broad scale application of an algorithm that often facilitates its ability to be effective, after all.
How about manipulating front page content to harass an unsuspecting user, juxtaposing public info such as an affiliation that’s documented on Wikipedia with content intended to gaslight the victim?
Earlier, popular content had links to endless malware.
Reddit always has been a cesspool. It’s simply symptomatic of a much broader societal cancer. I’m confident we will root out such problems in time, though.
This is representative of the fundamentally primitive nature of humanity. We are pathetic creatures that aim to bring others down, like crabs in a bucket. We harass and hurt each other insidiously with varying degrees of subtlety.
That we need to rely on technology for such behavioral control is indicative of a broader fundamental issue with the human condition. Take away safe spaces, consequences and so on, and a sufficiently nontrivial subset of humans will revert back to primitive and malicious behaviors.
I’ve found myself to be utterly disgusted by human existence. That such a thing even needs to be built reminds me of why I am glad to have never procreated, for the risks of misery are significant and random. Life is a craps shoot even when the odds are in your favor.
For all of the progress we’ve made as a species, these domestication tactics have ended up making our species more weak.
I do not support these initiatives, but then again I don’t support Instagram fundamentally. Humans will evolve with technology, but I’m afraid we will build in ways to ensure that the weak survive.
Doesn’t quantum mechanics leave open the possibility that our universe is fundamentally probabilistic?
Also, how can we say anything about free will when we have not come to grips with defining the hard problem? Of course, if you want to model biological processes based on deterministic physics then free will does not exist. I’m simply suggesting that the fundamental assumption that are universe is deterministic is flawed.
He was selling poison. The ruse was a way to get his admin account and collect evidence. They got lucky, and it worked.
The guy was a kingpin criminal running a drug marketplace. Kudos to the FBI for standing up to scumbags.
It’s unfortunate that the suspect committed suicide and is now non existent or had to face evil aliens or whatever, but he knew of the risks for his criminal activity. Suicide was his choice. The other choice would have been to face justice for his crimes.
One likely scenario if Trump continues to get his way is that we’re going to see a generational downturn. Such a thing has been a normal, healthy part of our economy historically. Perhaps we will see five years of a nasty bear market which we have not seen in a long time. It will be the buying opportunity of a lifetime.
The new reality of America first will require a serious growing pains. Such as Apple and other companies fundamentally thinking how they approach manufacturing
I will die one day. Humanity and the AI it creates will survive. My reports will be studied after I am gone, and compared to the private data accumulated.
For instance, few people have one time pads and much data will be eventually decoded. I’ll be vindicated.
My goal at this point is to add value to the species before departing.
Thanks.