this breach is of course appalling. But nearly as appalling is the experience of _explaining why this matters_ to non-technical friends who stare at you with blank, distracted eyes, but only for a second; for their phone (yes, the very phone that just exposed them to uncountable future ills) has chimed.
I have nearly given up; like smoking, it will be decades before the harms are understood. We have to wait for your neighbour's brother to have died in a targetted political killing, because someone didn't like his Substack and borrowed the number and likeness of a friend; for his daughter's credit score to have been crushed by an anti-abortioneer who borrowed her face and likeness and number knew her first-grade teacher; for his son to die a death of despair, after making the wrong friends, and getting doxxed along with the rest of them.
This should be a five-foot headline moment. But no; CNN will lead with Biden-mumbles or Trump-grumbles.
How is it that the things that are killing us --- inequality, climate change, privacy collapse -- all have this same shape? Hamlets, all of us.
I think humans are like corrupted, selfish and evil LLMs that like to think Utopia is possible if you think about it that way it’s super easy to understand
I have nearly given up; like smoking, it will be decades before the harms are understood. We have to wait for your neighbour's brother to have died in a targetted political killing, because someone didn't like his Substack and borrowed the number and likeness of a friend; for his daughter's credit score to have been crushed by an anti-abortioneer who borrowed her face and likeness and number knew her first-grade teacher; for his son to die a death of despair, after making the wrong friends, and getting doxxed along with the rest of them.
This should be a five-foot headline moment. But no; CNN will lead with Biden-mumbles or Trump-grumbles.
How is it that the things that are killing us --- inequality, climate change, privacy collapse -- all have this same shape? Hamlets, all of us.