You are correct about human nature, but what I challenge is the approach to contain our dark sides. Elections are a great example because this is where my thought and work focuses. Our elections are a complete and utter joke. Of course there can be deception. We have a corporate media, corporate academia, 2 corporate parties, and paper elections in the digital age without any means for a common citizen to realistically audit anything.
These things need to be fixed with a new way of operating, and that new way as a foundation automatically can enforce things like identity validation and media authentication. That eliminates a need to trust the foundation of the system, and gets us back to trusting people instead. All our current ways and thinking requires we trust a shadow infection of our foundations, that is completely opaque, while also trusting people. We have to solidify the foundations and remove the rot.
Where you might need to think more is around restricting access to intelligence in a non-equitable way. This is a corruption of the foundations. It can only work if there are unbreakable rules in accessing the system, and I do not trust the dark side of humans to operate with that — everything is breakable. Having access to intelligence breeds more intelligence. Things that can physically harm will still be restricted, but when you have organizations like the CCP or a world network of corrupt oligarchs, trying to allow only a subset of vetted people AI is misguided when such a large network of bad actor will most certainly have unfetter access, which they can use to control the minds of humans around the world.
You combat that by giving people unfettered access. Because there exists people we have no idea about, that are forces for enormous good. And if they have access to these kinds of tools, they can transform everything for the better. These forces are in the shadows right now, because the people in the light of society are largely already rotten. There will not be more harm giving everyone access; we already give gotten people the keys to everything and seem to survive.
Restricting access will most certainly result in short term stability in exchange for guaranteed death long term. It is a very misguided approach.
These things need to be fixed with a new way of operating, and that new way as a foundation automatically can enforce things like identity validation and media authentication. That eliminates a need to trust the foundation of the system, and gets us back to trusting people instead. All our current ways and thinking requires we trust a shadow infection of our foundations, that is completely opaque, while also trusting people. We have to solidify the foundations and remove the rot.
Where you might need to think more is around restricting access to intelligence in a non-equitable way. This is a corruption of the foundations. It can only work if there are unbreakable rules in accessing the system, and I do not trust the dark side of humans to operate with that — everything is breakable. Having access to intelligence breeds more intelligence. Things that can physically harm will still be restricted, but when you have organizations like the CCP or a world network of corrupt oligarchs, trying to allow only a subset of vetted people AI is misguided when such a large network of bad actor will most certainly have unfetter access, which they can use to control the minds of humans around the world.
You combat that by giving people unfettered access. Because there exists people we have no idea about, that are forces for enormous good. And if they have access to these kinds of tools, they can transform everything for the better. These forces are in the shadows right now, because the people in the light of society are largely already rotten. There will not be more harm giving everyone access; we already give gotten people the keys to everything and seem to survive.
Restricting access will most certainly result in short term stability in exchange for guaranteed death long term. It is a very misguided approach.