Comment by TheOtherHobbes

Comment by TheOtherHobbes 10 months ago

It's not a solvable problem. Like most tech problems it's political, not technical. There is no way to balance the competing demands of privacy, security, legality, and corporate overreach.

It might be solvable with some kind of ID escrow, where an independent international agency managed ID as a not-for-profit service. Users would have a unique biometrically-tagged ID, ID confirmation would be handled by the agency, ID and user behaviour tracking would be disallowed by default and only allowed under strictly monitored conditions, and law enforcement requests would go through strict vetting.

It's not hard to see why that will never happen in today's world.

malfist 10 months ago

> It's not a solvable problem

Lawnmower manufacturers said the same thing about making safe lawnmowers. Until government regulations forced them to

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brookst 10 months ago

Well, perpetual motion is also considered unsolvable. Perhaps the right regulation would make it happen?
Or... maybe that line of reasoning isn't super strong.

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- malfist 10 months ago
  
  There's a big difference between breaking the physical laws of the universe and Big Tech not wanting to spend money on moderators.
  
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  brookst 10 months ago
  
  "Big" is pretty vague there.
  But my point was that you asserted that regulations can overcome claims of impossibility. I was just illustrating that is not always true, and therefore we can't assume it is true here.
  
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ToucanLoucan 10 months ago

https://i.imgur.com/mXU28ta.jpeg
Specifically, 1970.

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- Aerroon 10 months ago
  
  Well, something to consider is that part of why everything is so much expensive these days is that a lot of the solutions to those problems add costs. That cost needs to be absorbed by the price.
  One of the reasons it's so expensive to build a house is safety regulations. They exist for a reason, but they nevertheless add a substantial cost to building a house. If you had mandated such a cost to people living in 1870 then a lot fewer people could've afforded a house.
  
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  tacocataco 10 months ago
  
  We should stop begging the for profit house building industry to make affordable housing. Just use the army core of engineers and build the mega cities from Judge dredd.
  
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  malfist 10 months ago
  
  Building codes are written in blood.
  
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