Chris and Jay discuss a podcast episode: Your Undivided Attention: The Dark Side of Decentralization.

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Timestamps from this Jay Flaunts His Ignorance episode:

  • 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer.

Jay’s notes on the Your Undivided Attention episode:

  • Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists by Audrey Kurth Cronin.
  • Is decentralization a good thing?
  • “Decentralizing the capacity for catastrophic destruction.”
  • 3D printing weapons.
  • Crypto currencies (Bitcoin, etc.) Would stop us from sanctioning Russia when they invade Ukraine?
  • Twitter vs. Mastodon.
    • Nazis using platform.
    • Minority instances get abused?
  • 5m: Alfred Nobel, invention of dynamite. Way more stable, powerful that gunpowder. Endowed Peace Prize partly because he felt guilty about dynamite (later used horrifically in WWI, WWII).
    • 9m: Dynamite companies begging for regulation.
  • 12m: Buy drones from Amazon, network them with AIs from github. Facial recognition, weaponized.
  • 13m: Bowling alley analogy:
    • gutter 1: People in their basements printing bio weapons killing millions.
    • gutter 2: Living in a dystopian authoritarian surveillance state.
  • TikTok meme: national shoot up your school day. Millions of people see that. Either nothing happens but millions of people are scared. Or school shootings happen. Either way terrorists win.
  • 18m: Mobilization is no longer solely a power of governments. For good and ill. Napolean, French Revolution, invention of conscription, invented the central power of the state. Now individuals have that power on social media.
  • 19m: Christ Church shooter: inspired by the Internet, live streamed to the Internet, contagion effect of people joining him. And copycats. Increase in violence, anger.
  • 28m: Forcing ALL social media companies of a certain size to set aside externalities and cleanup funds.
  • 36m: The way out is to care for each other.
  • 40m: Surveillance vs Sousveillance
  • 41m: Media coverage of train bombings making tons of money, driving more attacks. Many great media empires were built this way. Eventually editorial standards were created because they were a part of the problem. Which helped end the wave of dynamitings. Social contagion theory. JFK killing inspired more assasinations. Best predictor of plane hijacking is a previous, highly publicized hijacking.
  • 45m: Some sort of required ethics training when you have X followers. Because lots of people on TikTok etc. have more followers than major newspapers had a few years ago.