Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech. Earlier

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  • Historically, democracy only allowed free males who were land owners to vote. A minority.

    In the last few generations the wealthy have come up with clever ideas to hold onto power while expanding the vote to the majority.

    So, I think Democracy is defined by periodically changing some of the government by the voting of some people. And the votes must be counted in front of witnesses.

    This is my definition of democracy only; and not me arguing for it, personally I don’t think it works well enough



  • Yes: As long as people can vote, kick the other government out, and replace it with worse, maybe better.

    I think where the confusion lies at, is the very definition of democracy. Democracy does not mean good governance or even particularly fair treatment. It had nothing to do with socialism or helping the disadvantaged. It simply means it can be replaced using voting.

    I think the democracies of the west are overhyped oligarchies; but they are democracies











  • I design systems similar to this; in my mindset the competency and privacy are the same.

    There is simply no way anyone competent or knowledgeable would have made this series of mistakes in good faith. And it’s very hard for someone not knowledgeable about the tech to understand the magnitude.

    It’s rather like designing and selling car with bad breaks, and your car gets into an accident which could have been avoided had the breaks worked. But nobody could test the breaks fully?



  • Indeed, how can anyone know?

    I think failures like this will be readily apparent, within months after launch, to technically minded people only. But only if people have summaries in their news feeds or know how to research the opinions of others…

    Perhaps non technical people should wait at least a year or two of before trying a new service? By then the worst of them will have crashed or be found out.

    This will not be the last time it happens. With llm coding, I think there will be dozens similar to this in a few years