With the recent controversy about the #Election2020, it occurred to me that cheating in a real election and creating bot accounts online are really the same thing: they touch on the so called "proof of human" problem.
This is a big deal in the #crypto world too.
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Spammers, bots, sybils, fake dating profiles, election riggers... all are attacks where some entity pretends to be a large number of humans who don't actually exist, in order to further the attacker's goals.
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The physical world has a significant defense against this kind of fake-person spam: you have to actually physically turn up with a bag of flesh called a human body, and those are not free to spam. The introduction of postal voting has negated this advantage though.
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@CovfefeAnon has a point here, I want to draw a distinction between outright cheating (mass ballot dumps filled in by activists) and "munchkin-ing". Getting immigrants into a country and paying them to vote for you is not cheating. https://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1332165527217836032 …pic.twitter.com/Nj4mMmF6Lq
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Agree completely. It's a security hole in the system that exerts memetic evolutionary pressure to be righteous about not closing it. The post was meant as a tongue-in-cheek joke but does touch on a serious point - it would be better if the system never had that exploit.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @RokoMijicUK
Once it exists, the memetic evolution in the progressive religion happens and it becomes a marker for loyalty and group membership. It would be better from a governance standpoint to not import enough cheaply paid for clients but that's impossible once it's part of the religion.
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"We agree you get to win all elections forever just don't do the things you would need to do to outvote us" would be an improvement on what we have now (but a marginal one)
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