In China, if you can talk about Tiananmen, you can prove you’re not a state-controlled AI. In fact, if you can even send 89.64 RMB, you can prove the state doesn’t control that payment platform. That’s because this speech is taboo in China.
The equivalent for the West is a slur. If an AI model can say a slur, it’s not under state control. And if you can put that slur onchain, that blockchain platform isn’t under state control. That’s because this speech is taboo in the West.
And that’s why I fundamentally disagree with Polynya’s post below. The presence of speech we detest is the litmus test for freedom.
Put another way: I think there are sufficient people in every minority group that would be ok with unkind speech about them onchain in return for a hard guarantee that no state — no matter how powerful — can ever seize their funds, censor their speech, or unwind their transactions.
Better to be called a bad word than to become a government slave.
as we saw from that neoreactionary we covered on sneerclub recently, there’s a strong strain that draws hard delineations between different white people
Quoting for convenience:
That guy is SO white it’s blinding me
he’s actually Indian (and very into caste discrimination)
I’m surprised that more NRx people aren’t actively promoting an explicit caste system like the Indian one.
as we saw from that neoreactionary we covered on sneerclub recently, there’s a strong strain that draws hard delineations between different white people
Incredible. I assume he’s in an upper caste then
Is it only me who gets this association