Just model the internet as Printing Press 2 and the answers to all this stuff becomes obvious 1) Improved communication tech increases short-term chaos/conflict 2) Good luck putting that genie back in the bottle 3) Probably going to be a good thing in the long-termhttps://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1453089155517349894 …
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In other words, if you're concerned about the short-term conflict (which is totally reasonable), you should be thinking of strategies which allow us to live with the new tech, not try to turn back the clock
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What brought an end to the religious conflicts that followed the printing press? Mostly new cultural norms, reshaped institutions, etc. Basically 0% of the reduction in conflict was via attempts to restrict/shape the tech itself in order to return to the original order
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Be interested to hear your thoughts on this take though
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i 100% agree with this although maybe your underestimating extent to which the tech was controlled most countries banned a loooooot of books i believe
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nothing approaching absolute free press existed before maybe 1990s america. not even sure about this and even then, maybe part of the reason that printed material got nearly total freedom was that it was deprecated by other new media (which were heavily regulated)
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Def not claiming that printed material was totally unrestricted, but that: 1) trying to ban printed mat doesn't seem to have been a very effect strategy for conflict reduction 2) countries/cultures which did do better at not adopting/banning the new tech were outcompeted
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I think 2 is an especially important factor. You might be able to slow down or stop the new tech (china is doing this okay), but in doing so you pass up the eventual benefits of having a more powerful memesphere (should you survive the transition)
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In other words you can have the Chinese media system of the 1700s, or the Republic of Letters/Royal Society, but probably not both
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i THINK your right especially long run. like 95% i certainly hope your right
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We simply need to create ever more virulent memes and try to spread them to all our rivals so that those with weaker immune systems perish This has never backfired on anybody (pointedly avoids thinking about when the German Empire sent lenin to Russia)
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