CarbonScored [any]

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  • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    10 months ago

    The inherent (and problematic) implication in this concern is that there’s a ‘good’ way to evolve and a ‘bad’ way. While technology and medicine massively relieves biological pressures, some genetics diseases can be entirely managed, and more people are surviving to procreate, what we’ll see in the medium-long term is a major uptick in genetic diversity, some people will be massively reliant on technology, some won’t.

    As we hopefully know by now, genetic diversity is a Good Thing ™. As it increases, so will we as a species have more disease resistance, be able to fill more niches, we’ll have a wider scope of bodies and brain patterns to have new and cool thoughts etc. I do think cultural and social pressures on sexual selection could be problematic, rather than a good thing, but that’ll entirely depend on how society goes.

    Though honestly, I think it’s overwhelmingly certain that we’ll have the capability to alter human genetics on a large scale before any of modern evolutionary pressures become relevant. If you accept that, then the whole discussion becomes rather moot.


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    The association of the internet with mass amounts CSAM or Terrorist information. It’s a line that governments have been pushing ever since the internet evolved from ‘weird invention’ to ‘vague sense of threat to the integrity of nationstates’.

    Are these real problems that need addressing? Absolutely. Though on a much smaller scale than gets exclaimed. And rather than the priority being hunting down perpetrators, the effort almost exclusively goes into shutting down or bugging any server that law enforcement’s whim decides. The reality is that with end-to-end encryption, most “real” criminals on the internet will be entirely unaffected, while the created laws are instead mostly used for political censorship, the ‘war on drugs’, etc.

    As a line, it’s pretty much used to justify every act of censorship, privacy invasion, and restriction on the internet that satisfies a government’s awful interests.



  • Couldn’t disagree more. Do non-techies need anything more than a browser nowadays? Maybe a word processor? The process of turning on and opening a web browser on Mint are practically no different from Windows. Hardware will plug and play just the same. Using printers is equally intuitive (ie, not very). In fact, I can find firefox on GNOME by just pressing the Win key and typing “internet” or “browser”.

    Both are probably equally likely to run into incomprehensible tech problems that require techie intervention.