The I believe the real and dangerous problem with the algorithms, as being used today is much simpler to explain. This explanation, much like the pre-history common enlightenment in the article can be expressed in a very simple way. The US post office must be both the example and the solver / cure or fix. When this country was start…
The I believe the real and dangerous problem with the algorithms, as being used today is much simpler to explain. This explanation, much like the pre-history common enlightenment in the article can be expressed in a very simple way. The US post office must be both the example and the solver / cure or fix. When this country was started and worked out the problems of being different from the rest of the world; a democracy. things no one had dreamed about created problems no one even knew about. Simply sending letters, packages and information was no longer done as in the past. The post office was created. Letters,packages and information was sent using the Post Office which had the first information algorithms built right into the postal system. First class mail, second, third and even fourth class delivery options. This proved to be a great idea but a very unworkable system. The recipient not the sender had to pay the price of the delivery using the postal system. That just did not work. This created for profit systems with a multitude of problems. none of which worked to perfection. The postal system created stamps. Stamps were the cleansing system removing the problems for the most part for over a hundred years. Then stepped in the profit motive again as a way, we were told; was necessary and to create improvements to the system of moving letters, packages and information. It included the new creations of advertisements that would spur economic growth. Nothing was mentioned about the existing algorithms of the 4 classes created to provide government control and assistance to the Post Office. Along came computers, faxes, PDFs and now a system to replace the Post Office E mail. The answer to the new problems in the Email systems is simple. Put them under the control of the Post Office and make the sender pay the cost. davewd
I am not sure I agree with your proposals re: The Port Office. But there is a correct underlying principle in your remarks, and it is this: There is no friction in the internet system. Transmission to uncounted numbers of recipients does not cost anything. That is how internet communication is running wild and destroying itself. It is analogous to an electrical "short circuit". Bad things happen when there is no resistance, no load, in a system. Chain letters required paper, envelopes and stamps, and significant time to assemble it and monitor. Chain letters always died out because of that load.
I do not have a solution for the social media problem. I saw it coming way back in the day and chose not to use social media at all. Google "Godwin's Law", written in the early days. He saw this mess coming. He was right.
The I believe the real and dangerous problem with the algorithms, as being used today is much simpler to explain. This explanation, much like the pre-history common enlightenment in the article can be expressed in a very simple way. The US post office must be both the example and the solver / cure or fix. When this country was started and worked out the problems of being different from the rest of the world; a democracy. things no one had dreamed about created problems no one even knew about. Simply sending letters, packages and information was no longer done as in the past. The post office was created. Letters,packages and information was sent using the Post Office which had the first information algorithms built right into the postal system. First class mail, second, third and even fourth class delivery options. This proved to be a great idea but a very unworkable system. The recipient not the sender had to pay the price of the delivery using the postal system. That just did not work. This created for profit systems with a multitude of problems. none of which worked to perfection. The postal system created stamps. Stamps were the cleansing system removing the problems for the most part for over a hundred years. Then stepped in the profit motive again as a way, we were told; was necessary and to create improvements to the system of moving letters, packages and information. It included the new creations of advertisements that would spur economic growth. Nothing was mentioned about the existing algorithms of the 4 classes created to provide government control and assistance to the Post Office. Along came computers, faxes, PDFs and now a system to replace the Post Office E mail. The answer to the new problems in the Email systems is simple. Put them under the control of the Post Office and make the sender pay the cost. davewd
I am not sure I agree with your proposals re: The Port Office. But there is a correct underlying principle in your remarks, and it is this: There is no friction in the internet system. Transmission to uncounted numbers of recipients does not cost anything. That is how internet communication is running wild and destroying itself. It is analogous to an electrical "short circuit". Bad things happen when there is no resistance, no load, in a system. Chain letters required paper, envelopes and stamps, and significant time to assemble it and monitor. Chain letters always died out because of that load.
I do not have a solution for the social media problem. I saw it coming way back in the day and chose not to use social media at all. Google "Godwin's Law", written in the early days. He saw this mess coming. He was right.