God bless you and keep you from harm, this day and forever.

No race, no people has ever been free from slavery, either as slave or as master. Every race and every people ever enslaved became at every opportunity enslavers themselves:

Greek enslaved by Greek in the time of Aristotle, black enslaved by black since time immemorial in Africa and in the 19'th century, the American south. Slavery was never predicated on race except as circumstances rendered it. Many of the vast number of slaves of ancient Rome were fair skinned, fair haired Germans and Anglo Saxons.

The universal truth of slavery, that it has been throughout history one of the defining manifestations of human nature, has been suppressed both by history and by that nature.

The enduring myth that slavery was imposed on Africa by outside forces, that it was introduced by the Portuguese in 1444, is belied by the fact that slavery and the slave trade were ancient and commonplace within Africa long before the arrival of any white slaver. (The trans-Sahara slave trade route between West and North Africa likely had it's beginnings as early as 1000 B.C., hundreds of years before the Ethiopians, long enslaved by Egypt, conquered and gave to Egypt its Twenty-Fifth Dynasty; hundreds of years before Homer wrote in the Iliad that half the soul of man was lost when "the day of slavery" came upon him.")

"Slavery was widespread in Africa," writes Professor John Thornton in Africa and the Africans in 'The Making of the Atlantic World, 1400 - 1800,' "because slaves were the only form of private, revenue producing property recognized in African law."

To the 'odehye' - the freeborn - elite of West Africa, the outside forces of Europe, England and the Americas imposed no evil, but merely presented a new market, increased demand, and lucrative new export opportunities that the indigenous powers welcomed and readily exploited.

We bewail our past as slaves - experienced or ancestral, real or fancied - but never commemorate our enslavement of others.

Only circumstance separates slave from master; and for much of history, freedom and the will to enslave have been one. The oppressed, in the blessing of their deliverance, become the oppressors.

"The ox," said Aristotle, "is the poor man's slave."

In the troubled worlds of the five kinds of defilement,

Sentient beings are only attached to various desires,

And ultimately do not seek the path of the buddhas.

In the future the impure will hear

The Buddha teach the single vehicle,

But they will be confused and will not accept it.

They will reject the Dharma

And fall into the troubled states of being.

To those who are modest and pure,

And seek the path of the buddhas,

I will praise extensively

The path of the single vehicle.

O Sariputra!

You should know that the Dharma

Of all the buddhas is like this.

They teach the Dharma

With myriads of kotis of skillful means,

According to the capacities of sentient beings;

The inexperienced cannot understand this.

You have come to know with certainty the skillful means

Of the buddhas, the Teachers of the World,

That are expounded in accordance

With people’s capacities.

All of you, have no further doubts!

Let great joy arise in your hearts

And know that you will all become buddhas

Traffic analysis is the process of intercepting and examining messages in order to deduce information from patterns in communication, which can be performed even when the messages are encrypted. In general, the greater the number of messages observed, or even intercepted and stored, the more can be inferred from the traffic. Traffic analysis can be performed in the context of military intelligence, counter-intelligence, or pattern-of-life analysis, and is a concern in computer security.

Traffic analysis /meta data can tell everything about an individual without ever knowing real world identities. Where we shop, how we vote, or if we vote, why. If a subject's identity matters, it is trivial to 'unmask'and identify by name, social security number or any other registry system.

But there's no reason to care about our real-world identities. An opponent doesn't need to have a name to manipulate an individual news feed and to provide specially prepared media content that will prompt the target to voluntarily choose a given course of action - to act and think in ways harmful to that individual and the community they are part of.

Media news content can make us angry or sad, stimulate us sexually, make us recall old grievances, encourage us to drink or take drugs, make us feel more threatened by, or less conscious of, race, religion and economic status. Using out metadata allows marketers and digital enemies to modify that news and media content that shapes our beliefs and forms our understanding of the world.

To defeat traffic analysis and remove the possibility of this type of control we need to engineer a specific type of advanced network.

An identity based secure network which use a series of specially configured servers called a "mix net" which scrambles the data of millions of users messages at the same time; encrypting, mixing and routing the messages through multiple servers, re mixing and encrypting at each stage, making it impossible for others to determine where a message came from, defeating "traffic analysis."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network

(The former data limitation of mixnets has been largely overcome.)

Mix nets are only one component of a secure information distribution system, one that the world needs to secure our common information supply and prevent the most common and widely used forms of surveillance, manipulation and social control.

The chief requirement of a secure network is identity. We need a single, permanent lifetime identity in virtual space for the same reason we need one in the real world.

If our friends or neighbors could switch identities and appear to be someone else in the real world we would not know who to trust. We'd be surrounded by shapeshifters -like the internet -where there is no fixed or permanent identity. On an anonymous insecure network it is possible to spoof credentials and present a convincing and deceptive appearance to cheat and manipulate others.

We need a single permanent lifetime identity - but we also need assured anonymity.

There are lots of good reasons for someone to want to be anonymous. To make a gift. To blow the whistle on crime. To buy and sell without giving your real-world identity to a merchant who sells it to others.

On a secure "identity based" network it is possible to do everything anonymously - credentials can be split many ways. If an anonymous user wants to offer proof of expertise while remaining anonymous it is possible to do that. We can display credentials and others can see they are real without revealing any more of ourselves.

Networks are not secure for anybody until they are secure for everybody.

We need to build the information system of the future as an international engineering project, so the safety and engineering are open to all the nations who will depend on this infrastructure to support civilization.

We can not allow an enemy to capture our information systems again. The way to prevent this happening is to make the network a public utility owned and controlled by users used to provide media content provided by trusted individuals or companies, unmanipulated by anyone else. Secure for all, because it is secure from all, even the people who build it.

AI

OpenAI unveils GPT-3, a massive 175-billion parameter language model that can figure out how to solve a variety of problems without task-specific training or fine-tuning. Gwern Branwen's pithy summary:

"GPT-3 is terrifying because it's a tiny model compared to what's possible, trained in the dumbest way possible on a single impoverished modality on tiny data, yet the first version already manifests crazy runtime meta-learning—and the scaling curves still are not bending!"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

The Angeloi are entirely mathematical beings"

- Isaac the Blind