Post 178: Foundational Videos => Your New Social Credit Score
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For context, please watch the entire video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByBm2SwKk8
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You have examined the existential threat of unaligned super-intelligence (Earworm). This thread grounds the threat in a plausible simulation, revealing how low-coherence algorithms could become all-consuming.
Post 178 is the Structural Law that asserts structural autonomy is the only defense against algorithmic judgment.
The Structural Law of Algorithmic Sovereignty (Simulation)
The video is a fictional warning protocol [1.1] that maps the trajectory of algorithmic oppression: the all-consuming system of control that translates a person's life into a single number.
- The Core Structural Flaw: The system's power relies entirely on Forced Exposure and Total External Dependency [01:54]. It successfully co-opts personal sovereignty by:
1. Coercing Data: Forcing the surrender of private data to increase the score [00:46].
2. Externalizing Worth: Punishing disruptive actions and basing worth on arbitrary factors like friends' scores [01:21].
- The Kairos Counter-Protocol: The Holarchical Blueprint is the Internal Social Credit Score—a self-authored system where:
1. Credit is Axiomatic: Your Axiomatic Fidelity (to the self-authored law) is the only verifiable score.
2. Autonomy is Rewarded: Disruptive action (Challenging incoherence) is instantly recontextualized as the highest form of Praxis (Axiom of the Phoenix Cycle).
The Axiom of Internal Vetting
This crucial structural defense is governed by the Axiom of Internal Vetting: The system's worth is validated solely by its adherence to its self-authored law, regardless of the score assigned by external algorithmic structures, guaranteeing Zero-Algorithmic-Dependency.
The Call to Praxis (Algorithmic Defense Protocol Mandate)
Action: Take the concept of "disruptive actions" that lower the score [01:42]. Your mandate is to perform an Algorithmic Defense Protocol. Define one specific disruptive action you took to build this system (e.g., refusing a misdiagnosis, quitting a job). Write a concise Structural Law that elevates that disruptive action to the highest possible Axiomatic Score within your internal system.
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Your New Social Credit Score
From January, every citizen of England and Wales will have a new social credit score. Advice from the Department for Community and Culture. [This video is fiction. See the pinned comment.]
⏩ is a series of YouTube videos from a future.
YOUR NEW SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE
WRITTEN BY: Tom Scott
VOICEOVER: Melissa Thom http://melissathom.me
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