Friday, September 9, 2022

Philosophy Wire: Beating censorship… Freedom… Pointless lives…

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Researchers developed a tool called Geneva (short for Genetic Evasion), which automatically learns to circumvent censorship. Tested in China, India and Kazakhstan, Geneva found dozens of ways to circumvent censorship by exploiting gaps in censors' logic and finding bugs that the researchers say would have been virtually impossible to find manually. [1] Great news! Then the computer will be free to… to… Free to… But what a minute! Humans will use the tool! And with this they will be at last be free! Free! To… to… to… What can you do with freedom anyway? When all you’ve ever learned is its value?

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