On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 01:26:23AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Jun 20, 2020, 23:44 by [email protected]: > > > imagine a fully self contained (by extension, fully decentralized!) > > technology... > > Fully self-contained and fully decentralized are mutually exclusive, change > my mind. > > > ...remove these errors via second sight over your shoulder... > > > Are you talking about the errors that people make while interacting in the > social world? Wtf is second sight and who's looking over my shoulder? > > > > a great equalizer for the common person, as they interact with society! > > So are guns.
A good example. > > the fact that we've built technology infrastructures around centralized > > control and end-user antagonistic devices is no inherent flaw of > > technology... > > The inherent flaw in technology is that every new kind, from the cotton gin > to the smartphone, has been wielded as a weapon over the many to siphon money > and power to the few. True. > It's true that objects have no inherent moral standing but that's missing the > point. There's no inherent flaw in a handgun, but that doesn't mean that > there isn't a problem. And don't take me the wrong way, I like guns. And so if the inventors or gunpowder, and of guns, and of lathes, and of honing, and etc, had each had a definitive moment in time where they could heve -not- done their particular invention, ought they have so buried their invention? > > ...the aggregate errors of fallible humans choosing convenience and cheap, > > again and again. > > > > redirecting human effort toward human-centric decentralized technology left > > as an exercise for the reader. ;) > > I can generally agree with this. The continual choice of cheap and easy that > the end user makes is beginning to bite them back. Decentralized technology > at the moment harder to use if not more expensive but is much less > victimizing. Possibly so. Perhaps a fundamental issue is "end users" choosing "shiny/ enslaving/ 'no' cost to me" over "liberating/ less featureful/ requires more personal effort"? We are all end-users of many many products, so "what choices have I made today or this week" ... "how have I communicated with another today or this week, in any way which may effect their or my thinking about freedom" ...
