My life's purpose is to bring down Big Data and end the dystopia.
Confusingly enough, nobody seems to want the same. People are fine with the tradeoff where they get memes in exchange for their privacy. Not only is this stupid, but they're selling you memes that weren't created by them but other users like you.
The problem with the Internet is that it works with inverse entropy: if you let Internet do Internet, a monopole will form. The way things are right now, Google will most likely buy Meta and that's our endgame. I'm making a construct that will enforce entropy. The only way to achieve this is to actively ban monopoles. Literally put in active work to prevent monopoles from naturally forming. But in order to impose a network-wide guideline, you'd need control over the entire network. This part is what makes people sweat, but it's no different than a labor union making sure no employer fucks their employees. We need a people's union for the digital space. A center of Internet standards. Behavioral data collection, for instance, could be banned altogether if the majority wants it. Would you oppose this?
So, the only way to do this, is to unironically create a monopole whose sole function is to make sure there's no monopole. This part is why I wrote "high IQ time" in the title. If the monopole to end all monopoles sounded stupid to you, you're simply not smart enough to understand it. It all boils down to what the modus operandi of this new monopole is. If it's open, non-commercial and democratic, then there really is no problem, because Google is none of that. Basically we'd be replacing Google with something far better. If this sounds authoritarian to you, ask yourself how much you can affect Google's decision making. We would still allow Google to continue operation, they'd just have to agree to every single rule we'd impose on them. Making Google give up user data collection would be sweeter than catching a shiny Pokemon.
>My life's purpose is to bring down Big Data and end the dystopia. tl;dr OP
Joseph Lee
>tl dr Bro it's a very, very complex topic and most people don't even know what Big Data means. Most Internet users do not know what a cookie is. They're keeping us dumb with entertainment so we'd never have the know-how to attack them.
Samuel Roberts
People care about privacy like they care about having a virgin gf.
They pay lip service to it, but when you look at their choices they don't actually care much
Liam Diaz
Do a diddly fiddly with EMP, bring forth the dust of grey and end the misery of the decaying world.
>So, the only way to do this, is to unironically create a monopole whose sole function is to make sure there's no monopole. Oh, this was already said by Vladimir Lenin in 1917. >socialism is nothing but a state-capitalist monopoly, which is turned to the benefit of the whole people and has ceased to be a capitalist monopoly to that extent.
Camden Sanders
I used to be concerned about big data too. Then after a while you realise if everyone has no privacy then that in itself is a form of privacy, because where do those who have the data look when there's billions of people?
Besides it only really matters to you if you're a criminal or a revolutionary and if you're those things you just have to be careful about what you post online
Yeah man just like, replace Google man, no one ever has thought of this! Sounds cool dudeee
John Collins
They do, if you type in the wrong thing in Google or write the wrong comment on a YouTube video then the police will be forwarded all of your personal information that Google has gotten from you. First name, last name, your email and password, if you've linked your credit card or any other personal information then they'll send that as well (with your CVV, for some reason) and you'll be put on a federally designated terrorist list to boot. This is all very well documented, WikiLeaks released this information a few years back.
Ryder Campbell
To add to this, there's around a million US citizens on a watch list, this was found out by accident through a cybersecurity researcher. The reasons given for the majority of these cases were typing in the wrong thing, even if some were surely ironic, you know the whole copypasta where people spam controversial keywords into Google? Well, you're on the list now buddy. All future keystrokes typed into Google are monitored closely, all for the sake of national security... of course...
Michael Edwards
>All future keystrokes typed into Google are monitored closely, all for the sake of national security... of course...
That sounds scary but it isn't, for one, a million people on a list, there's probably tens olf millions on that list, well they can't monitor all that. Also you have to commit crimes for law enforcment to be interested in you and typing words in google isn't a crime.
You have nothing to worry about unless you're a criminal and then you'd be slightly more careful wouldn't you?
David Walker
...they were 'monitoring' some of the london or french terrorists before they acted but there's literally too many potential terrorists for them to do a good job at all.
Eli Lewis
>You have nothing to worry about unless you're a criminal
This is the least comforting thing
Josiah Howard
>there's probably tens olf millions on that list, well they can't monitor all that It's all automated. It's not like some secretary has to flip through notecards to find it
There's a whole research field dedicated to crunching huge amounts of data like this to making predictions about people
Ryan Ross
you're paranoid mate, you can't make predictions about people you dumbshit
Juan Hall
>you're paranoid mate, you can't make predictions about people you dumbshit
Bro..
BRO.
There's _already_ a literal AI on most social websites that predicts pedos and stuff like that before they strike. By analyzing their typing. The AI is called Crisp Thinking. Put that in Duckduckgo.
Camden Lee
Nah, he isnt paranoid, he just has a grasp on statistics. For the first time in history we have both the data and computation capacity to actually do this. Yes, its in his infancy, but its just gonna go on exponentially.
>t. Mathematician/CS data scientist with a faang quant research job lined up
Ayden Thomas
you guys can't even predict how a ball is going to bounce
Bentley Collins
>Mathematician/CS data scientist with a faang quant research job lined up
Are you one of the fuckers who uses their IQ to further the dystopia rather than fight it? The depressing thing about cool university degrees is that you'll end up a drone after all those wonderful years of thinking about the universe creatively.
Jason Harris
>Are you one of the fuckers who uses their IQ to further the dystopia rather than fight it?
Kinda. I just like explaining, predicting, optimising and understanding stuff. And if someone wants to pay me huge sums of money for doing what I enjoy Im gonna take it.
>job is boring Thats why I took it up to phd. And Im gonna do research, not classic swe, meaning its less tedious. Been working on algotrading and quant finance since undergrad tho, gonna stay a few years and then use the money to start a hedgefund. Already got a remote job, no people, just me, the data, a south pacific beach and the occasional mojito/thaigirl.
A middle school kid that took physics could predict that.
