Notices by Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social), page 2

@sun

@sun lol, I guess you're more black-pilled about it than I am. What do you mean by this?

@sun Population control generally works best with carrots and not sticks.

I could see it happening, but it would have to be the solution to a problem.

The scenario I outlined earlier (spam, "dead Internet") could be one circumstance where that occurs, as your prediction is basically the same as my thesis but with the addition of an on-device specialized crypto module.

I concede it could happen, but it won't happen with a stick, only with a carrot.

@sun

> by the right side

I'm pretty convinced that the secret to happiness is adopting the Asian philosophy that nothing is good or bad, it just is -- acceptance.

@sun It has its faults, but it's objectively useful for many use-cases even if it has a failure rate of ~10%+, as long as the user accepts that and accounts for it.

Most of the non-remediable issues are simply side-effects of the increased tool sophistication, particularly for those with little to no technical skills (i.e, spam, people using tools to create malicious content)

@sun Yeah, the spam problem is not going to get better. I mean, look at some of the Twitter bots. Some of them are pretty sophisticated (and existed before LLMs) in generating enough spam to drown out reasonable discourse.

It's demoralizing, but only highlights the importance of socializing primarily AFK and making (and maintaining) connections with real people.

The golden era of early Internet is ending, if it wasn't over years ago.

@sun

NAS has ~1.4k active accounts.

At $6 per, it would take a mere $8,400 to have sophisticated bots in equal proportion to legitimate users.

$33,600, $55 less than a new model Hybrid Honda Accord, buys you control of 80% of the network.

In practice, it probably only takes a percent or two to poison the well.

AI has significantly lowered the bar for creating linguistically passable bots.

It will continue to be abused.

There is no technical solution.

Acceptance is the only solution.

@sun Yeah, a social "web of trust"-like system (which I guess FoaF is -- I'd never heard of it) is probably the only way forward.

Though, I could envision a future where it's allowed to become bad enough (Problem, Reaction, ...) that the "solution" people clamor for is government-backed centralized identity online.

@Henhouse_Cockerel @Fox I assure you, anyone who posts shit like this has already imported the #Blacklist and has NAS blocked.

Good evening, gentlemen.

It is time once again for the chimp-out phase of the asset pump wherein the Bitcoin Bros, Silver Shills, Gold Bugs, and Stock Jocks spin the merry-go-round of "your asset sucks!" for a bit before the pull.

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We do a little trolling -- It’s called we do a little trolling.

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#DoBetter

I despise those that think this is a real victory against "the system", but I hate communist liberal statist retards even more.

I demand that NAS is banned from more European hugboxes by the time I wake up.

@xianc78 @djsumdog @menherahair Time has to be spent to produce (and support) that "information", which isn't free.

Best argument one could make is that it isn't "free" because the self-interested contributors do it for social/emotional capital.

@xianc78 @djsumdog @menherahair

> "everything is political" bullshit

Ya, swiss-cheese lefty brain.

Funny, because open source software is probably the best (if not the only) example of the masses beating back capitalism and producing significant value from nothing but time donated by self-interested individuals willing to share the fruits of their labor with no expectation of remuneration.

No real surprise it attracts lefties.

Politicization and contributor schisms are thus to be expected.

@Hoss @fknretardlol we all know how this goes

Bustin' makes me feel good.

@Sophistifunk @Murray_N Let me tell you somethin'

Regarding Musk's PAC 1099ing people $1mil, I've read this many times:

> federal law prohibits individuals from paying money to get people to register to vote

But is this also not an illegal lottery, as defined by the feds?

Is registering to vote and giving your full name, email address, physical address, and phone number not "consideration"? Or am I uninformed and PACs are legally permitted to run lotteries?