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Bicurico:
I used to think that politicians are dumb.

While this may be true for some, I nowadays believe that most are indeed brilliant and very smart. They act dumb on purpose, when required. If they were really dumb, then people like myself (smarter than average dumb) would be in their places, but it seems I am not smart/good enough to enter that spheres.

And not being dumb at all, their decisions seem odd to us, but really they just happen to follow a different agenda. Their goals do not match what "the people" want.

This is a fundamental discussion, though, because democracy has a major flaw: more than often, the majority is actually wrong. And we all know that the majority of people are indeed dumb. So if the majority could actually make decisions like democracy suggests, then we would see many wrong decisions! Examples of what the majority would want to decide:

- lower taxes
- free healthcare
- free education
- free ...
- lower retirement age
- free parking
- no speed limit
- lower gas/energy/food price
- ...

The majority, however, would be indifferent to the question where the money comes from. They would bite the hand that feeds them: the rich. They would forget that the rich generate wealth. Without rich people investing in companies, we would have no jobs and as such no wealth or tax money... It is really more complicated than what the average citizen can grasp.

In my opinion, there is a political agenda, more than often controlled by organisations and groups of people which are hidden behind the politicians. They control what is happening, independantly of what party has been elected.

In order to better mask this reality, stupid topics are brought on the agenda, feeding hate and disagreement (like the whole gender debate, for instance - how can this have so much exposure, when it represents so few people, compared to much more important subjects that affect many more people).

The world has always been run like this, by few organizations (like the Masons, Opus Dei or Communist party collectiv). However, a new problem arose: the information society.

Suddenly, goverments cannot control the virtual gathering of people, ideas and information. And that scares them and they will only rest when every individual on the internet is automatically controlled (not enough resources to do it otherwise).

The whitch hunting for pedos or other criminals is just a pretext to implement the absence of any privacy on the internet against goverments.

Want to hunt pedos? Why not start with the catholic church? Why not use decoys and catch the networks that operate professionally? As I already mentioned, why not monitor the well-being of children in a better way? The pedo victims normally come from disfunctional families and it is the state that failed to help the affected children, despite manifestation of symptons in kindergarten or school.

Another big problem in current days is the concept of "political correctness". I am in doubt if it is ok to post what I write and think. Because current culture does not like those that use science, rationality and academic reasoning when used against hysteria issues like pedo, gender, BLM, etc.

How can this situation be changed? There is only one way: by educating the people and have them thinking for themselfes. I try to do that as a teacher. With limited success, if any.

Miyuki:
Politicians are not dumb in a way of low IQ.
They fall into the trap of narcissist psychopathy. They believe that are superior and know everything.
They also have insider information to make great business deals and gain huge money at the edge of the law. And most of them will have many lawyers to check it is still somewhat Ok.

There is also a big difference between the US and Europe. As the US is close to an oligarchy and both of their parties are closely connected with them. Whereas the EU with many independent parties competing with each other is a kind of self-organizing chaos. With no strong force behind it.
One can discuss what is better. But the index of living conditions is better for the EU.
But if you want to make a big business US is way better.

Bicurico:
I do agree with you.

And to sum up my participation in this thread: the whole issue is (as most things) more complicated that it seems.

Back on topic, I would like to add:

If you have a file with 10 bytes and generate a hash with 1 byte, you will have 256^10 diferent possible files, all represented by just 256 different hashes. Of course there will be collisions.

No matter how much you expand this relation, unless the hash is composed of the same number of bytes as the input file, there will be collisions.

And files can be manipulated so that the hash is different and excluded from the database or innocent files can be manipulated to produce the same hash as an illegal file. With both damage can be done on purpose.

The random collisions, while statistically not frequent (take a hash with many more combinations than the number of files that will be analyzed), can and will happen, like the LOTTO Jackpot is distributed every now and then dispite the odds. And being wrongly flagged by AI because of a hash collision WILL cause damage to the poor victim.

Miyuki:
I have one funny experience with AI failure on Facebook
The photo of my cat was flagged as pornography  :-DD
I know he is hairless and it makes it complicated for AI to distinguish
But it just illustrates at what level those algorithms are today

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