[slg]

If I saw this comment 5 years ago, I would have thought you were some crazy conspiracy nut. Today I read it and worry that you might be right. I wonder what I will think seeing this sentiment 5 years from now.

I personally don't know if the world is on some sort of precipice. It seems like that's possibly the case. The strongest piece of evidence is that many of the rich and powerful, including those big tech leaders, are behaving like it is and that they think they're close to some sort of victory.

[datsci_est_2015]

Power has always tried to shape the perception of reality: kings, feudalists, slavers, industrialists, etc.

What’s novel isn’t that powerful people are trying to shape the perception of reality, it’s that who is powerful and what makes them powerful may be rapidly changing. I think it’s something that our “big tech leaders” are primarily concerned with, over everything else. Fundamentally evil, imo.

[shrubby]

I see this as a line.

Other end is concentrated power (via money, violence, manipulation,...) so something like a dollar per universal vote.

Other end is one vote for each, including the future generations.

Wikipedia is an obstacle for the first one that must be taken down. Perhaps one of the last barriers before the endgame.

And there's no fuzzy middle option, we've (me included) have thought in our comfort for too long that us vs. them scenario that both the left and the right (at least mainstream ones) is possible. But it's now clear that there's no lukewarm at-right or green social democrat version. Only full fascism or full democracy.

We might still have the time but one by one the platforms that would enable this (wiki included) keep being ingested thus making it less and less likely.

But like you said five years ago this level of consciousness would have been out of the question for us both so perhaps there are more of us?

[shrubby]

https://youtu.be/TaKrm5txGCQ?si=VQ3R64fSeQ9Xv_Rr this is something I keep coming back to. It doesn't seem so fictional anymore.