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0 pointsjrm42mo ago0 comments

Your last point is one that I used to be very strongly favor of, and today?

Nooooooooooo. No. No. No.

It's not going to happen and we shouldn't even consider it. Seriously. This thing we are doing here, which is "connecting people to each other," those forces for MANY will be far more powerful than "let me stop and think about the fact that this is forever." I just don't think we are wired for it, we're wired for a world in which we can just talk?

I think it's better to try to engineer some specific counter to "everything is recorded all the time" (or, as in here, not try to usher it into existence even more) than to try to say "welp, everything is recorded all the time, better get used to it."

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bee_rider2mo ago

It would be nice to engineer a way around this, but I don’t see it. Fundamentally if we want to be able to talk to random people, we’ll have to expect that some might be capturing communications, right?

jrm4OP2mo ago

I think there's a massive difference between "some might be capturing" and "reliable, e.g. hashed records"

Again, there may be some VALUE in the fact that "some might be capturing" WOULD BE inherently unreliable. The ability to "muddy the record" could make some SAFER.

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