Didn't know earthquakes don't want news printed... Had to type it because it sounded funny in my head.
About news, we just lost that, there is a reason most of human history is full of dictatorships where the peasants/plebs/... get the fantasy version of what's happening, X declared himself king through violence and treachery? Well god put him there of course. etc.
Some can say we had a nice period where newspapers cared about their reputation and you could just pay 50 cents to buy today's paper and know what was happening that day, is this true? probably not, why not? well this assumes everyone working in the press is some sort of angel devoid of greed, fear, etc. which is not the case, people are people: personaly if I had a news paper agency, and saw that some news could be dangerous, I don't think I'll stop it from being printed, but again I think tomorrow I'll wake up early and workout, and I think that I'll continue learning and working hard to build something, will I do it? well I think so, statistically will I do it? No, I'm human, we are failible, etc.
Today on the other hand it's a total shitshow, the news today is just comedy to anyone who's not totally gullible, why? the internet happened, natural selection killed those who stuck to the truth and promoted those who went with clickbait, natural selection also killed those who ran out of money and promoted those who accepted investments from X and Y... For example, did you know the Gates foundation (not a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist by the way you can verify this yourself) basically owns Kurzgesagt? Most research papers Kurzgesagt uses are published by subsidiaries of the Gates foundation and they donated to them many times so they basically own them, what if I was Kurzgesagt and I was married and had kids and I had a choice between accepting free money from a well respected foundation who does good research as far as I know, and my channel failing and my wife and kids suffering the consequences, would I refuse the money? of course not do you think I'm stupid?
Whose fault is that? well it's the system's fault, the internet is just more stimulating, and as humans, we don't give a shit about the news, we used to watch it to feel empathy, sadness, happiness, etc. now you can feel a diluted version of most feelings by visiting a porn website, a gore website, a social media website, etc. We didn't care about the Israel - Palestine conflict, which is basically an Apartheid, and we didn't care about bombing a country for oil and killing a million people, why would we start caring now about the elections, politicians being corrupt, etc... ?
If we can improve the system, aka build a protocol for the news, we can have something better, but how do you build a protocol for the news, Bitcoin was a protocol for cryptocurrencies, it needed people to spend computing power to get coins, how will a news protocol work? something that can't be controlled by X or Y, can't be faked, closest stories to reality get the most attention, etc.. is something like this even possible? who knows...
About news, we just lost that, there is a reason most of human history is full of dictatorships where the peasants/plebs/... get the fantasy version of what's happening, X declared himself king through violence and treachery? Well god put him there of course. etc.
Some can say we had a nice period where newspapers cared about their reputation and you could just pay 50 cents to buy today's paper and know what was happening that day, is this true? probably not, why not? well this assumes everyone working in the press is some sort of angel devoid of greed, fear, etc. which is not the case, people are people: personaly if I had a news paper agency, and saw that some news could be dangerous, I don't think I'll stop it from being printed, but again I think tomorrow I'll wake up early and workout, and I think that I'll continue learning and working hard to build something, will I do it? well I think so, statistically will I do it? No, I'm human, we are failible, etc.
Today on the other hand it's a total shitshow, the news today is just comedy to anyone who's not totally gullible, why? the internet happened, natural selection killed those who stuck to the truth and promoted those who went with clickbait, natural selection also killed those who ran out of money and promoted those who accepted investments from X and Y... For example, did you know the Gates foundation (not a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist by the way you can verify this yourself) basically owns Kurzgesagt? Most research papers Kurzgesagt uses are published by subsidiaries of the Gates foundation and they donated to them many times so they basically own them, what if I was Kurzgesagt and I was married and had kids and I had a choice between accepting free money from a well respected foundation who does good research as far as I know, and my channel failing and my wife and kids suffering the consequences, would I refuse the money? of course not do you think I'm stupid?
Whose fault is that? well it's the system's fault, the internet is just more stimulating, and as humans, we don't give a shit about the news, we used to watch it to feel empathy, sadness, happiness, etc. now you can feel a diluted version of most feelings by visiting a porn website, a gore website, a social media website, etc. We didn't care about the Israel - Palestine conflict, which is basically an Apartheid, and we didn't care about bombing a country for oil and killing a million people, why would we start caring now about the elections, politicians being corrupt, etc... ?
If we can improve the system, aka build a protocol for the news, we can have something better, but how do you build a protocol for the news, Bitcoin was a protocol for cryptocurrencies, it needed people to spend computing power to get coins, how will a news protocol work? something that can't be controlled by X or Y, can't be faked, closest stories to reality get the most attention, etc.. is something like this even possible? who knows...