Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Too narrow of a scope to be useful I think.
When he talks about LLCs, the real thing he’s referring to has to be capitalism. The “unaligned AI is already here, it’s corporations” trope has been around for a while, and I don’t think it convinced a lot of people to become socialists.
I think you can’t usefully tackle just the capitalism of the tech industry, if you don’t understand the wider system around it. I mean the VC that sloshes around in tech to raise up one bullshitteer after another comes from somewhere. Real estate, mining, fossil fuels, etc.
Yeah. I mean, I’m going to assume that he’s not specifically referring to LLCs and that, say General Partnerships and Sole Proprietorship aren’t actually better, mostly because they absolutely share the same problems. But that’s a whole lot of digital ink spilled about how important it is to create “digital public goods” - and one assumes public goods more generally, given our ongoing inability to subsist on digital food - without any real thought put to how such systems should be organized, controlled, protected, etc. Like, if he stopped trying to wave “digital innovation” around like a magic wand he’d basically have to be a communist or anarchist of some flavor. But he’s still sufficiently in the Silicon Valley Milieu where lefty politics are too cringe to admit, so he’s stuc having identified some real problems and having no realistic starting point for solving them
Nah, this is the threat as he describes it:
He’s not saying that “corporations are a parasitic species we created that will devour our precious planet and ability to survive and turn it into shareholder value for our corpses to enjoy” no sir he’s saying we need to switch to open source replacements for Office 360 and get Right To Repair for our tractors.
Yeah, but he’s been saying this for a while, and I don’t think this is a new way of saying it that is particularly useful.
Agreed