It sounds like you yourself are outraged and policing how people feel about this game?
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This is psychopathic.
It is “for-profit prisons create a system with a financial incentive to increase the number of incarcerated people”.
“Israel, thank you for your cooperation, my gosh, we’re really going to get to the bottom of this” = ‘We know what you’re doing, fuck off’
Perhaps the question is how to continue to create high-trust environments from a social perspective, not an interface perspective.
There’s a distinction between technical drawing in plan and section, vs perspective. When you draw at scale, the size of your pen and its marks become scaled to the size of human movement. That is, the end effector of your pen(cil) tip becomes a metonymic representation of the person. When you focus at that scale, then it allows one to think ‘into’ a space.
Perhaps what I’m talking about is drawing or sketching with an accurate scale. The benefits of working with scale drawings is that the paper (whether physical or digital) becomes a simulation environment that is able to prove or disprove hypotheses - like “will this space feel cramped” or “will this furniture fit in this room”, or “will this crowd be able to flow this way”. This happens because the drawing space, as a Cartesian space, holds information about dimensions, as a consistent mapping from the physical world into the drawing world.
I’m not sure what the analogue would be for technology. Imagine if UMD diagrams or drawings for microservices were somehow scaled based on the robustness of each server? In the physical world, constraints move pretty slowly - your foundation usually isn’t going to move 5’ to the east in the next 100 years, whereas compute capacity might change a great deal overnight. The need for a consistent mapping space seems less important, because technology changes rapidly.
But if anyone has any examples of the equivalent of a scale drawing in technology, let me know!
For example: NSA wiretapping was a truth that happened to align with pre-existing conspiracy theory narratives. It was easy to dismiss it as a crackpot theory, but that didn’t make the truth any less (or more) true.
If someone says “if you believe this might be true, you’re [a bad person]”, I would consider this person fundamentally against truth, and someone more interested in shaping narratives than upholding accuracy and integrity.
What about post-tensioned concrete slabs? Cross-laminated timber? Structural glazing? Intumescent paint?
Technology does keep improving, actually.
Uh, yes it is? It's in most building codes, as well as in the IBC (International Building Code).
Architects don't deal with structural soundness; that's a misconception. That's the domain of the structural engineer. The architect IS the generalist.
2036: Due to increasing amounts of deepfake CSAM, the US's Congress passes a law against unconsensual deepfake porn, requiring "websites of sexual nature" to be POR-compliant or be shut down. Porn web companies, ISPs/hosting providers, and credit card processors alike are legally liable.
Pornhub welcomes this change with cheeky 'PORnhub' branding, but the reality is that change is necessary or they will be sued out of oblivion.
Prosumer platforms like OnlyFans welcome POR-validation with wide arms, because it bolsters their image of authenticity. Exploiting the ban on deepfake porn, "softfake porn", where celebrity look-alikes create porn, becomes mildly popular.
2037: Eventually, ISP / hosting providers / credit card processors that instigate the change. Much like SESTA/FOSTA's impact on sex workers in the early 2020s, payment processors and ISPs refuse to work with POR-unvalidated porn sites. Eventually, porn sites shift towards POR-compliance, and create new niches.
Of course, underground deepfake porn still exists, if you know where to look. But by now, its associated reputation with CSAM makes it very inaccessible and disdained.
Gone are the days of rampant deepfakes in the late 2020s and early 2030s. Mainstream media and politics call this a success, but a minority are angry, saying that deepfakes are a creative act, and the effective ban on POR-noncompliant material is a further restriction on creative liberties. ..
It's 2030 and deepfakes run rampant. This is a problem creating political deepfakes, celebrity fake porn, CSAM, fake revenge porn, etc.
Apple builds on their Spatial Photo feature, and their newest smartphones allows POR, or Proof of Reality.
Proof of Reality: Data from multiple cameras and a LIDAR sensor are stitched together to generate a 3d depth-map + color map that can validate that a photo or video was shot without post-production manipulation. This processing is done on-chip, on a Secure Enclave-like chip, and cryptographically embedded in the following photo. Each raw capture starts as the first block of a blockchain; further images or videos that are created from this raw data are understood to be downstream of this first block.
A piece of Proof-of-Reality media, edited together with multiple clips or images, can be cryptographically verified that it is composed out of individual Proof-of-Reality media. Like a Merkle tree.
Apple pioneers the first fully Deepfake-proof media workflow. Consumers can watch news media or social media while being cryptographically assured that it wasn't AI-generated.
2031: Proof-Of-Reality (POR) starts to catch on in public. Samsung gets on the bandwagon, and develops their own version (or joins a POR consortium). Soon, 40% of media is POR-validated, following the usual smartphone & OS update statistics.
2032: A particular egregious deepfake scandal from a non-POR source drives the rush towards POR standardization. Apple and/or the POR consortium partners begin to produce more professional-level POR camera equipment. Content blockers that block non-POR media become developed.
2033: Certain social media websites begin to place labels notices on non-POR media. POR-media consists of 70% of all news & social media.
2034: News media companies fully switch over to a POR-workflow. Browsers start adopting non-POR labels for content, like Twitter's 'Community Notes'.
2035: Deepfakes as we know it are mostly hidden from the public eye, but continues to evolve and change in unexpected ways..
Ergo,
Saying “all this hullabaloo over a bunch of green paper” about money is… both true in a physical sense and misses the mark in a sociopolitical sense.
Saying “a giant rock causes harm” is both true in the physical sense and misses the mark in a sociopolitical sense.
Honestly it’s wild to see this kind of logic of HN. Goes to show how much technology has become more about business culture than about the technology itself.