Yes of course.

But by what method or algorithm does this DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA system protect us from propagandists and censors?

What is a method in THAT?

Distributed tagging and voting? The grace of our benevolent moderators? Something else?

I mean, combatting propaganda and censorship is the #1 issue here.

How do we protect ourselves from propagandists and censors? Large, small, popular and individual.

Brave and creative.

Everything written by Greg Egan for the first decade or so of his writing career

It’s a good point.

Proof is constrained to mere intellect. Intellect is a coarse, low-rez thing.

Self-cultivation, otoh, has no limit. If you want to crack the simulation then that’s the way to go.

If we could do emotional memory transfer then we wouldn’t need movies anymore.

Movies are an indirect way of evoking emotions.

hmm, yes. Maybe I translated it in my head

fair enough

It’s a fairly on-point criticism actually.

I don’t know who stormtoss is. I took it you were saying that this comic artist was like stormtoss but not as bad. Then I offered that we skip all that and talk about the comic instead.

Clear?

I didn’t think my request was that far out but ok, I will watch it in the future.

so you would rather not address this point directly.

So you’re saying that this guy is a nazi and his comics are bad, to some noteworthy degree.

Any comment on his actual point here?

Wrong? I didn’t say anything about wrong.

I said they’re different. Worlds apart in fact.

One is evoked by an imaginary person. The other is evoked by a real person.

It’s as different as bananas and banana-emojis.

Wait, nevermind. I am a worm

No it’s something else. Because imaginary people are totally different from real people.

Hmm that sounds like a profit making opportunity for a technically inclined person.

I was thinking neon lights. I mean that’s basically an arc, just spread out. I think I heard that there’s a glow in vacuum too, just not as nice as with neon.

Is it empathy?

I mean, I have empathy for real live people.

But imaginary people? That’s something different.