No, they do not. They do need to have people believe they do need to.

email will become so unusable, next one will have to be HELNO i guess

But then, remembering bernays, i am happy they are incompetent. The day they reach competency with the toolset that is yet in infancy, i will regret not having tried to control who is running this. On the other hand, you just can't risk doing this. It will lose your control eventually. And without being a conspiracy theorists, it won't be long until more pips (people in power) will notice the ease of influence- and propaganda (in bernays understanding, the one who rebranded it as public relations), through these tools.

Luckily, i've never been in a knife fight. Though i've heard, that with an unskilled fighter, you have pretty bad chances of not getting hurt. But a skilled one is a death sentence. Of course i don't want to be attacked by a knife. And i don't want to take some other unskilled street gangster and train him. Of course, some people get humbled if introduced to power. But many corrupt. And those hungry for power, are rarely those, who should have it. This could be an hour long discussion. But just look around the people you know well. Maybe yourself in certain situations or relationships. Every humans has the potential.

So what i think w

Except yourself, presumably, to me it almost seems nobody is perfect.

I am not saying it's like a nuclear bomb. Rather like the first guns brought into fights the others were perfectly prepared for ti fight with swords and didn't even know yet, about this fascinating invention called a gun. Sounds interesting. Let me inspect it. Oh wow, that's interesting technology. What happens if i push that thing back? Will it re... oops...

Thank god that we have honourable people like altman, zuckerberg, musk. Imagine how bad all this would turn within the next few years, if major decisions were made by self-serving, delusional, greedy egomaniacs...

Of course currently let's first hope those wars and all the tension in societies all over the world, in war or peace, won't explode into something really, really bad. Looking at history, i fear we see how social tension on large scale over time... not saying it's not obvious to almost everyone. So well, let's just keep hoping. Maybe throwing blackbox AI tech into the mix, would surprise and change course of history. Actually, while i am thinking about it, i think i just changed my opinion into the opposite position, lol. Honestly, if it's 50/50 that this will lead to the worst possible outcome intensified, it's still better than just checking boxes following the "humans slowly stumbling into near-extinction experiences 101" handbook. Because just according to that, we're lucky if we're off by 10 years. There must be a big change in humanity and how the world is currently constructed, for all this leading to anything other than what we should expect from history. If we kept all nations busy with huge technological issues, that made all of their personal lifes so complicated, turn every elitists luxury into a burden, busy to defend what they own, while they can't realize, that normal life has changed so much, they now are the ones, frozen in life. They would have no time for conflict.

This sounds totally logical. In any other scenario, it would be pretty insane what we are all doing and entertaining (including me, top10 hypocrite).

I fear it's too late to turn ship, yet we still can jump ship.

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Especially because now thinking about the thoughts that just went through my head, maybe (technological) disruptions are actually disrupting. But not a status quo of an economic model.

But a pretty clear loop of human nature and "humans in societies". And the more often we disrupt this loop, the more time we get before it's ready to start over again.

And now we have something that has the potential to change all fundamentals so much, that all the major conditions inside this loops iteration become meaningless. The environment changes so much, the state of the checkboxes gets emptied. Cache invalidated. Indices are gone.

Oh, i know how dumb this sounds. I am not even trying to claim anything. I didn't even think about it before, this is just a note of the words that i typed, almost on autopilot. No idea if i believe a part of this could be real. But even thought, just as a mere fictional story, it already entertained me.

AI can turn it into a pseudo-poem or a 4 pages document. Or it can just fix the grammar. But it doesn't really change the point of the sentence– nor does it fix the actual issue with it.

Similar for code: There are codebases with lots of smells and really dirty parts, yet, that are still better than methodically clean ones that just don't "get to the point".

I am so sick of all the AI bloat. People were able to hide their incapability behind unnecessarily complex frameworks or obscuring it through "clean code" concepts. Now LLMs give those uninspired people the option to invest even less of what makes worthy software and hide it in more abstraction.

Just: AHA! (AI won't)

I wonder though, what is your idea of a future, where freenet plays an important role in most peoples lives?

Great work it seems, so far. I will yet have to really look through it all. Congratulations on this.

So, how and when did points come into play? ...

Well, ok. I stop procrastinating for now (i hope). I hate my brain.

Or... maybe... just maybe... it can be a bad thing, because it's a bad thing.

Haven't seen that one yet. I like it.

I am so tired of this type of phrasing... OMG, this is gonna change the world!!!

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And we are just starting out... oh boy...

Anyone up for working on a new internet, designed for keeping stuff like this an the people who produce it, out?