Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Balaji Srinivasan 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.
privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.
Encryption thus limits governments in a way no legislation can.
Where this was said
↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com
All 25 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd
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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.