> The real value of the old internet was showing us what is possible.
Of equal value is that it showed us what not to do.
We have 30 years of documentation for research on exactly what a
successful intra-planetary network needs to be immune to. A
successful future network must build-in resistance all forms of human
pyschopathology from the ground up.
This is a nice fantasy, but it's a fantasy. The tech stack and network we have is too dense a forest to be replaced by clean slate designs. But maybe some of the problems could be improved with some new platforms and APIs. Mind you, ML is making so much progress so quickly that what happened over the last thirty years is at best a partial model of the problem we have to solve now, and the tools we have to do it with...
> ML is making so much progress so quickly that what happened over the
last thirty years is at best a partial model of the problem we have
to solve now, and the tools we have to do it with...
Sorry I don't see how ML can help here. It seems like another thing to
pin hopes of repairing an already too broken system on.
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
created them." -- Albert Einstein
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents
and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents
eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with
it." -- Max Planck
We are the dying generation my friend. We built it. They came. It
didn't work. Surely if ML can do anything it's telling us that we need
to tear down the old system completely and start again, don't you
think? Adding sticking tape won't help.
Of equal value is that it showed us what not to do.
We have 30 years of documentation for research on exactly what a successful intra-planetary network needs to be immune to. A successful future network must build-in resistance all forms of human pyschopathology from the ground up.