I like the time he spent agonizing over the grammar for the BloodFeast one.

is a helluva drug

So don’t strengthen IP laws. Strengthen labor and antitrust laws.

Say: “You can’t use someone’s own creative work to compete against them in the same market”

Creators get a modicum of protection. The power-grab by the ultra-rich faces a major setback. FOSS models keep on truckin.

Dance Dance Soviet Revolution

To libertarians, yes.

It’s wild how we went from…

“Crypto is an energy hog and its main use case is a convulted pyramid scheme”

“Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”

…to…

“AI is an energy hog and its main use case is a convoluted labor exploitation scheme”

“Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”

Convincing the working class that tools the system creates are free of the system’s agenda may be an even greater achievement.

Conspiring to jack up rent prices is exploitative when people do it. Is it any different when the RealPage algorithm does it indirectly?

I don’t see any value in saying that human behavior is the problem but then specifically carving out an exception for the automated agents we create to amplify specific behaviors.

When RedBubble ganks art and sells it on t-shirts, how is that different from when Stability ganks art and sells it at a text prompt?

So why take the heat off of AI, as if profiting from mass plagiarism is different when it has an API instead of flesh and bone?

Right, but the technology has the system’s philosophy baked into it. All inventions encourage a certain way of seeing the world. It’s not a coincidence that agriculture yields land ownership, mass production yields wage labor, or in this case fuzzy plagiarism machines yield a transhuman death cult.

Considering most new technology these days is merely a distilation of the ethos of the big corporations, how do you distinguish?

This is just the latest draft. It’s been building up since before the John Birch Society.

Renewable energy, trains, bike lanes, buses, traffic quieting, tax incentives for businesses that adopt remote work (or penalties for RTO), and heavy taxes and regulations around data centers.

That’s what the country needs.

Not abortion bans, bathroom bills, and upside-down flags.

That’s probably the least of your worries, tbh. It’d be like missing the bottom screen of a 3DS.

We probably wouldn’t name them until they had reached a certain age

We know how good they are at combing-over.

From the Halo 1 warthog grenade jump compilation?

Edit: https://youtu.be/nGQIQljaAc0?t=84s

Added some links to my original comment.

It’s not instead of central currency, but in addition to it.

The advantage is that businesses can transact with less conventional liquidity so they don’t have to rely on bank loans. This allows them to charge less to customers who use the local currency.

In the long term, this makes money [in general – both kinds] move slightly faster within the local market, which makes the money [both kinds] more valuable [within the community]. And since the money [again, both kinds] is staying in the local market, the community’s wealth is less likely to be drained by external speculators.

I think Rushkoff’s notion was that new local currencies would be in addition to central currency. It just allows businesses to give a discount to transactions that will keep the wealth inside the community.

It’s a neat idea, I just don’t know how you would protect it from financial services turning it into yet another abstract tradable asset that undermines the original purpose.

Doug Rushkoff had a talk where he called out local currency as a thing he’d like to bring back from the medieval.

Exclusive to the community, and only valid for a short period of time, so you can’t hoard it or siphon the wealth to another community.

As an able-bodied neurotypical 30-something straight white cis male with a suburban middle class upbringing and an office job, I don’t participate in identity politics.