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Now you have to trust the software used to do this, the algorithm itself, and that there was no tampering before the data got stored. Which is something truly verifiable by a very tiny subset of population and even then with full cooperation from authorities. This is the opaqueness of countermeasures.

Vote counting is not a mathematical problem, but a sociological one. Any „always correct machine” is useless if people can’t reasonably trust it.

Paper ballots don’t scale - you can’t stuff ballots without someone being present - and are designed exactly in the problem space vote counting itself occupies. As an additional evidence in their favor, autocratic regimes and corrupt politicians are way too eager to switch to electronic voting.

It’s not checks that are the issue, but the scalability of the offensive and the inevitable opaqueness of countermeasures.

So what I hear is that if I manage to get through AI driven screening process, I’ll be the top candidate. If.

Because we convinced ourselves that children of victims cannot grow to be monsters.

It’s all the other men. Always.

https://arxiv.org/html/2410.12835v1

Happiness can mean either of two things: joy and contentment.

While it might be possible to convincingly feign elation, contentment, I’d argue, is harder to convey externally and near impossible to fool yourself about.

Marginalized groups need activism - it’s a survival tool. For the same reason, if any obligation to activism exists, it’s for those that don’t need it.

Placing obligations onto those who are already burdened is immoral.

Fraction of truth is the best lie, and you seem to have mastered it.

Salaryman Kintaro. It wields absurdity just right.

They are also extremely competent in turning conquered populations into meat squads. With centuries of experience. Which should terrify anyone sitting on the far side of conquered countries.