@P01ndexter@lessin@theinformation@davidakaye@AugurProject@gnosisPM Sam, I'm not sure I'm ready to come off anon today but I meant what I said re: my work experience ๐
I share Steve's concern re: banning anonymous speech
Many consequences - one is it makes platforms unable to resist authoritarian demands for specific posters' identities
Oldie but goodie, nice visualization of virtuous cycles
Reminds me of Bourdieu and types of capital
Here we have knowledge capital -> network capital (via distribution) -> financial capital
@eriktorenberg This was a fantastic thread, it helped me clarify many thoughts I have about my career. Hereโs a graphic I made that helps me visualize @eriktorenberg โCareer Feedback Loopsโ
@P01ndexter@lessin@theinformation@davidakaye@AugurProject@gnosisPM "there exist good uses of my pet project" does not equate to "we should build this tech without designing to mitigate the negative consequences"
That second part is where all the hard stuff is!
Morally neutral tech absolutism is just non-responsive to reality
@P01ndexter@lessin@theinformation@davidakaye Yyyyyeah I think if you look at the intent of Freenet compared to its use in practice you might see some daylight there...
Technologies should also account for how they get used in practice
Like tips are pretty difficult too - you would see tipping to support mass atrocities
@P01ndexter@lessin@theinformation@davidakaye It's tough to imagine someone in a war torn country documenting human rights abuses against civilians having the same resources to keep their speech online vs a govt fighting to hide atrocities
@P01ndexter@lessin@theinformation@davidakaye I find reputation economies really fascinating, and worked on the technical design of such a system for a large, billion+ platform
One challenge here is access vs accountability.
Pay to speak quite clearly rewards those with money.
@P01ndexter@lessin@theinformation@davidakaye In general I'm with you in spirit - free expression is extremely important - but the devil is in the details.
Two things I find missing from most tech discussions are:
1/ quality of speech
2/ who speaks
Neither is simple to measure or address
@P01ndexter@lessin@theinformation 1/ This isn't a credible stance to anyone who has worked seriously on these issues at scale - things are way more complex
2/ Violence is most certainly not apolitical
3/ A better grounding might be intl human rights standards, like @davidakaye suggests
@OwenMRoe @TurnerNovak Turner does this definition mean the graph is measuring aggregate savings over aggregate disposable income?
Curious what savings rate by income class looks like, do you know where to find that?