SufferingSteve

There once was a dream of the semantic web, also known as web2. The semantic web could have enabled easy to ingest information of webpages, removing soo much of the computation required to get the information. Thus preventing much of the air crawling cpu overhead.

What we got as web2 instead was social media. Destroying facts and making people depressed at a newer before seen rate.

Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.

What crypto gave us was fraud, expensive jpgs and scams. The term web is now even so eroded that it has lost much of its meaning. The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

I would be for a state owned chain, does not have to be completely decentralized, it's just good tech that can make the payment processors of today obselete.

Basically require each bank to run nodes, while letting the central bank of the country hold the keys to mint new coins.

I mean one could also have verifying nodes run independent.

The tech is there, doesn't have to mean use anarchy moneys, it just means an overhaul of our ways of transferring value around.

So basically it could help combat our blatant consumerism as well? Seems like a win to me

Wow, people start caring when they come for their porn. These duopolies should be broken up, people should adopt crypto payments.

Eh, just make shit up. Works for the world elite

To be fair though, if almost anyone had a 3D printer, only plastics would be distributed, and only the plastic that is needed.

What I mean is that you don't have to manufacture in advance and actually ship plastic products to every corner in the world so that these plastic garbage cab sit on shelf and then end up in a landfill after not being sold for tens of years.

Basically on-demand plastic garbage production would in most cases where the amount required is not well understood be beneficial if most people did it.

Because almost everything is made in excess, and the wasteful production is just offset in cost.

You could also go the other way, if you are smart incapable of being efficient at me menial labour. You will go hungry, until such a time you are hungry enough to do the menial labour for very cheap.

Turning us into two distinctly separate classes, low educated low intelligence, and high intelligence, highly educated elites controlling swarms of smart AI

Indoctrination is a hell of a thing, might escape it physically, but still being trapped mentally.

I admire your positivity. I do not share it though, because from what I have seen, because even if there are open weights, the one with the biggest datacenter will in the future hold the most intelligent and performance model.

Very similar to how even if storage space is very cheap today, large companies are holding all the data anyway.

AI will go the same way, and thus the megacorps will and in some extent already are owning not only our data, but our thoughts and the ability to modify them.

I mean, sponsored prompt injection is just the first thought modifying thing, imagine Google search sponsored hits, but instead it's a hyperconvincing AI response that subtly nudges you to a certain brand or way of thinking.

Absolutely terrifies me, especially with all the research Meta has done on how to manipulate people's mood and behaviour through which social media posts they are presented with

I'll just ask chatgpt to do the research and vote for me

Yeah because if everyone is extremely cheap labour everyone will prosper? :)