How Do We Escape Computer Controlled Propaganda Flow

[Karl]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:00 PM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 01:59:51PM -0500, Karl wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 1:40 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 05:52:02 -0500
> > > Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Many of us have ways to make the world right,
> > > > but so long as our actions can be predicted, it doesn't seem easy to
> > > > pursue them, and pursuing them may have consequences.
> > >
> > >
> > >         I don't think prediction is the problem but numbers. If enough people want to burn down amazon and google, the 'prediction' won't stop them.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Does anyone have advice on what software developers can do during this
> > > > time, to help the situation?
> > >
> > >         how can computer programers fix a political problem?
> >
> > I stand by blockchain technologies that prevent the isolation of
> > communities and provide immutable public records.  Cryptography can
> > make votes unalterable,
>
> Cryptography unfortunately can't stop the dead from voting.

Give an experienced carpenter a hammer and they'll build for you a spaceship.

Cryptography could prove the correct behavior of systems that prevent
the dead from voting.

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> > dialogue unhidable.  Math could show clear
> > statistics of what influences behavior and information flow, and for
> > whom.
> >
> > But computer programers share with you the malady that problems are
> > for 'fixing'.
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Personally, I have no idea how to communicate with people who refuse
> > > > to harm anyone, to work on solutions with them.
> > >