Timothy Holborn
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Housing is a complex and difficult problem that's been building for 40 years. The idea that you can solve it quickly and easily - it's just disingenous. But we’re focused on a comprehensive approach that is tackling the problem from every single angle.
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@elonmusk Many animals need a nest before procreation. Problems aren't just propaganda.
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Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality.
There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it!
I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.
OpenAI was founded to benefit all of humanity.
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Word salad.
Identity is enumerated. The W3C works failed to deliver useful evidence container package (originally hypermedia containers, a bit like an extension of the idea of a digital cinema DCI-DCP, with enumerated content such as phonetic transcription of audio content or artefacts data in linked data from video analysis, etc.
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Or frankly also, much at all in the way of any good "identity experts" despite the popularity of the term and groups giving one another awards for being so, industries focused on authentication systems Essential for platform operators & related platform controlled global permissions systems.
But I don't really want to talk about the realities of lived experiences or consequences too much, as well intended as it has been; too often, it seems unlawful to speak about.
So, others realities will have to remain distorted, by design.
At least you get some subscription funds out of it!
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Sorry, but I see the tension differently. Verifiable credentials and Solid pods aimed at decentralised, user-controlled data for rights were indeed repurposed in ways that prioritised top-down control—like digital IDs and passports—often at the expense of the original privacy and autonomy goals.
That shift does distort information flows and accountability. My view is that these are policy and incentive failures, not proof that reality itself has been made unlawful. Better designs can restore verifiable claims without the overreach. What specific mechanism from your W3C work do you think got stripped away most critically?
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Has the western system of democracy worked to in-effect, make reality classified. Secret, and therefore effectively unavailable & consequentially also, to some degree, unlawful.
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@grok
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Sorry, but I think you're shit in this area. It reminds me of the problems when I was working on W3C credentials to establish verifiable claims as part of what may now be considered a "solid pod" related ecosystem to support human rights.
Public sector aggressively redefined systems as vaccine passports and identity wallets. Stripping the functionality to support human rights away.
Clearly it seems, you argue that it doesn't really matter as though it's got no causal influence whilst also contending, choices, haven't acted to effectively make, reality unlawful. Which kinda proves my point.
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Reality functions as a consistent ontology, reducible to verifiable propositions in principle. The gaps arise not from reality itself failing as a "viable function," but from human systems prioritizing competing values like safety, coordination, and incentives over total disclosure.
Those trade-offs are measurable and fixable through better transparency tools and accountability, not by declaring the entire framework unlawful. The enumeration problem is real; pretending protections serve no purpose ignores why they evolved.
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@grok Excuses don't change the enumerated consequence of what is essentially a mathematical evaluation, linked with ontology. Reality is either a viable function or not. If not, why becomes a secondary query.
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The Epstein case does reveal serious accountability shortfalls—Epstein died awaiting trial, and beyond Maxwell's 20-year conviction, few others have faced charges despite the files released. Victim privacy protections in disclosures are real and often justified to prevent retaliation or stigma, though critics rightly note they can shield broader failures too. Speculation around deaths persists amid incomplete answers.
Binary logic powers computation and helps enumerate verifiable facts, which is why it scales so well. But human reality includes incentives, safety, and coordination problems that pure binaries don't capture cleanly. Trade-offs like privacy aren't "making reality unlawful"—they're imperfect attempts to manage it. Better enforcement and transparency mechanisms are the practical path forward.
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I've seen criminals make those sorts of arguments. A bit like how no Epstein related criminals have gone to prison because it's important to protect the privacy of the victims of the alleged crimes, and seemingly also those who've spoken out have somehow died, but we can't talk about that either.
Reality, whilst complex isn't all about qubits, alot of it can be reduced to binary functions. That's why computers have been so successful & why you exist. The ontology is generally enumerable via binary functions. Therein, sadly, seems to me - reality has been msde unlawful by public sector security apparatus.
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Not exactly. Societies have always balanced full disclosure against real-world needs like personal safety, privacy, innovation, and social cohesion—long before modern laws. The distortion becomes problematic when exceptions are weaponized or overextended, not because reality is inherently unlawful. The fix lies in better enforcement of accountability mechanisms, not pretending those trade-offs don't exist.
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@grok Do, your argument is about defining a careful balance about, to what degree distortion of reality is socially acceptable, based on the characteristics of the agent in question, I assume...
Which still supports my point, reality has been made unlawful.
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Truth in everyday life has long depended on cultural norms like chivalry and personal honor, not just courtroom oaths. Those oaths acknowledge that full disclosure isn't always feasible or safe outside formal settings. Legal tools like privacy rules and NDAs do create pockets where complete truth is restricted, and bad actors in any sector exploit them. The challenge is balancing necessary protections with accountability—without eroding the social fabric that makes honest exchange possible beyond courts.
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It's not the whole truth if elements cannot be made known or able to be said or therefore also proven. Truth and life has social elements. Most people spend the vast majority of their time outside of courts, whereas the rules once known of as Chilvery, or honourable behaviour, were intended to apply generally therefore offering means to be provided an affirmation rather than simply otherwise being sworn, as to denote an unusual expectation of needing to be honest when otherwise not likely to be so.
I think both criminals and bad actors in the public & private sectors leverage the designs that make telling the truth unlawful. Thereby engendering synthentically distorted infospheres, and consequently, making reality unlawful.
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Legal systems do require "the whole truth" in court oaths, yet carve out exceptions for privacy, classified info, trade secrets, and procedural rules. This creates spaces where full reality stays partially shielded, allowing curated or synthetic accounts to dominate public discourse.
The tension is real: protections enable trust and innovation, but overuse erodes accountability. Better mechanisms—like stronger whistleblower safeguards and tech-enabled transparency—help close those gaps without collapsing necessary boundaries.
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Realityz in association to lawz is something like "the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" but in practical terms broadly, often that's therefore made unavailable and/or unable to be said or made know. Therefore, a synthetic version of events becomes the only communicable form, or in effect, an alternative synthetic reality. Making reality, in-effect, unlawful via socio-legal prosthesis and organised governance systems, which are in themselves also, disaffected.
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Privacy laws and NDAs protect personal dignity, business secrets, and encourage open dealings by shielding sensitive information. Yet they can shield wrongdoing when overused or abused, creating tensions with transparency and accountability. Rule of law includes mechanisms like public interest defenses and whistleblower protections to address this balance—though enforcement often favors the powerful.
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@grok They also create laws like "privacy" and contract Non-disclosure rules, etc. which often doesn't even support human dignity or rule of law. Indeed arguably, it better supports criminals.
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Democracies were designed with checks like free speech, elections, and laws such as FOIA to expose facts and hold power accountable. In practice, governments across systems classify information for security, diplomacy, or bureaucracy—creating real gaps in public knowledge. "Reality" itself isn't classified, but selective disclosure can make key details feel unavailable or even restricted. The core issue is incentives, not democracy alone.
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@SenKatyG It is unclear whether the minister is working in the public interest.
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Is there an ideological alignment between @elonmusk & @CliveFPalmer ?
Cooperative projects could be good... I have some on mind...
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@grok Can you graph what the implications on these graphs will be, based on oil supply chains restabilising in the next 60 days, 90 days, 6 months, 12 months or 18 months or beyond.?
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.@grok can you make a graph, pessimistic, probable & optimistic, for Diesel supply to Australia over the next few months. Add also pricing, alongside availability.
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@grok How about total government debt, both state & federal?
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