Category:Cypherpunk

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Cypherpunk is a genre of fiction closely related to CyberPunk. It involves near-future technology themes, but focuses more on cryptography, decentralization, and network theory than on hacking, cracking, and culture jamming (though it often incorporates those elements in less central story lines).

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates - https://old.reddit.com/r/lightningnetwork/comments/10916pl/image_quote_by_socrates/

SJW Take

Emphasis on W.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rareinsults/comments/1gwivap/damn_common_elon_and_ian_miles_l/lyas723/

Its beyond cringe. He lives in Malaysia and profits off creating political division among Americans. Twitter becoming X has allowed someone as dogshit as him to make that a job. I think he’s a grifter too but it frankly doesn’t matter to me in comparison to his “job” being more disgusting than any insane, cringe shit he says

Blue should get paid. Crowdsource this shit. Or, as Metallica said, "Fight Fire with Fire."

Another Angle

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996)

What about a series of videos, maybe weekly. Each one would take one controversial topic and probe its depths. Present the 10 second summary, and the one minute version, and the annotated five minute version. Invite others to critique and expand individual elements.

Maybe something like Wikipedia, but comprised like TikToks and FixedByTheDuets, and curated by pure scien-tists. Timeline tags with collaborative filtering to elevate the most useful.

How Fight?

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1h5px73/canary_in_the_coal_mine/m08cj30/

Plus the proven success of oligarchy in the form of Fascist Russia.

(Success as in “the law doesn’t apply to us and the rabble is unable and for the most part even unwilling to come after us while we exploit them and control them via managed democracy and mass digital media. Copy us abroad because either way we’re coming after you, as you, your ideals, and your sanctions, pose a threat to our model”).

The internet was touted as a tool for freedom but it was the graveyard of democracy and pluralism. The control it allows is far greater and absolute than what previous mass communication allowed for. It’s no surprise that the world’s most connected mass society is also the only totalitarian state that survived (and thrived) into the 21st century.

The world is too small now and there’s very little to no refuge for opposition to authoritarianism. There’s no cabin in the Swiss Alps for you to conspire against the Czar. No Parisian café for you to debate republicanism. No Green Dragon Tavern in Boston for you to propagandise revolutionary ideas. Nor there is even a remote far-flung territory where the unwanted are sent to and can join efforts with the locals against the dictatorship in Lisbon.

In every single one of those places, you are now 5 seconds away from those who want to oppress you. Even if you turn off, everyone around you is still turned on. And you can’t engage with them where they are - online - unless you’re also turned on, and therefore exposed, and consequently findable. Totalitarianism is now customised and instant. How can a ballot survive that?

Answer: We have the numbers.

In The News

Reddit Itself

Post Election 2024

Other

Death of Journalism

Discussion Topics

See Also: cypherpunk/cypherpunk_reddit/doc/story/

  • A discussion whose depth Reddit cannot reach: https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/174n36u/reddit_moment/
  • Market Pricing and the margin between demand, supply, and market price: https://iterativechaos.com/summary/173yrnj.html
  • Twitter Follower Calling: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/17jsa0z/a_psa_on_privacy_setting_changes_two_images/
  • Cruelty as Idiot Detector: https://old.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1821dnm/how_to_spot_an_idiot/
  • "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."
  • Thematic Media: rogue one, firefly, dungeon crawler carl, v for vendetta, The Expanse, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Snowpiercer, The Hunger Games
  • CypherEmpathyMachinesAndArguments
  • Tamagotchi Streamers: https://old.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/189zbi7/everyone_has_the_mom_subscriber/
  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Acceptance, Glorification, Fragility, Evolution
  • United States Migrant Carrying Capacity (V2)
    • What kind of research data do we have on the cost (~services) and benefit (~labor) of migrants?
    • Are there meaningful trends? Is the data sufficient to make forecasts that significantly differ from current numbers, or are there too many unknown unknowns?
    • They will exist somewhere until they pass on. What are the options and what are the implications in how we support or limit those options?
    • If the cost/benefit is negative, how many per what period can we support for a reasonable cost? Compare to the budgets for other socio-benevolent missions like public defenders.
    • What is the US rate of inbound requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • What is the US clearing rate of requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • What is the global rate of migration and trend? What would be our share based on population, GDP, or GDP/capita?
    • Pull the numbers together.
      • What is the cost per migrant?
      • How many can we support?
      • What is the inbound rate and forecast?
      • What is the net rate and forecast?
      • What knock-on effects should we consider?
  • Migrant V1
    • What kind of research data do we have on the cost and benefit of migrants who request asylum protection?
    • Are there meaningful trends? Is the data sufficient to make forecasts, or are there unknown unknowns?
    • These are human beings who have to exist somewhere until they pass on. What are the location options and what are the implications for our national identity in how we approach those options?
    • How many per what period can we support for a reasonable cost? Compare to the budgets for other benevolent missions like public defenders.
    • What is the current rate of requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • What is the clearing rate of requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • Pull the numbers together.
      • What is the cost per migrant?
      • How many can we support?
      • What is the inbound rate and forecast?
      • What is the net rate and forecast?
      • What knock-on effects should we consider?

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