Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Andrej Karpathy said
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Strong encryption limits what governments can do in ways that legislation cannot.
Karpathy expects AI to let citizens make their governments legible and accountable, reversing the historical direction in which only states could read society. Srinivasan says strong encryption limits what governments can do in ways legislation cannot. Both are about the balance of legibility, and they point at opposite instruments: one makes the state readable, the other makes the citizen unreadable.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.