IMO, the way tech has moved from ownership to subscription based terms pretty much marked most of us would end travelling on a dark and poorly lit path, but I never realised the extent of the bigger problem [1] [2]
Technofeudalism could be further amplified with LLMs / AI. Expect a small fraction of its overall output as useful, the rest will be spent on population analysis to keep the population in it's place. First step; just remove good public search engines that deliver good results regardless of where one lives or their place in society.
Everything happening in America is a choice. Policy is a choice. Whatever you believe or values you have, what your congressmen, senators and president do, is a choice. Most things that benefit normal people are not "too hard". This country has a policy constructed to benefit 10,000 people at the expense of 330m. I am not a pessimist, but man, it is shocking. There is only like 1 out of 500 people in power that genuinely values democracy, this country or the people. I am sure it will be somewhat great for the people at the top, but I am curious what happens when say 100 million people can't meaningfully live in American society.
We had no say in our origins as a species or individually
I am hard pressed to understand why you think we have a say over the future at all if we had none to begin with
I am an engineer with 30 years experience in EE, software, farming even longer, have rebuilt cars. Currently involved in a legal case with an opposition lawyer who is dumb af. Even the judge has shaken her head in disbelief at their ignorance of anything but the letter of the law.
And this lawyer has the ability to screw peoples lives over.
Now consider most people are dumber than that. Hard pressed to see where progress is going to come from
Depends on the 100 million; Boomers and GenX roughly make up that number and the Boomer half is already half dead. Millennials on down make up the rest of the 300 million. It won't be a clean break along generational lines due to generational family bonds but Musk and Thiel, most of the other well known CEOs are among the older 100 million. And they do not have the allegiance of most of the other 200 million who will just cement them in their bunker if they make it
IMO, the way tech has moved from ownership to subscription based terms pretty much marked most of us would end travelling on a dark and poorly lit path, but I never realised the extent of the bigger problem [1] [2]
Technofeudalism could be further amplified with LLMs / AI. Expect a small fraction of its overall output as useful, the rest will be spent on population analysis to keep the population in it's place. First step; just remove good public search engines that deliver good results regardless of where one lives or their place in society.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-05/what-is-technofeudali...
Everything happening in America is a choice. Policy is a choice. Whatever you believe or values you have, what your congressmen, senators and president do, is a choice. Most things that benefit normal people are not "too hard". This country has a policy constructed to benefit 10,000 people at the expense of 330m. I am not a pessimist, but man, it is shocking. There is only like 1 out of 500 people in power that genuinely values democracy, this country or the people. I am sure it will be somewhat great for the people at the top, but I am curious what happens when say 100 million people can't meaningfully live in American society.
We had no say in our origins as a species or individually
I am hard pressed to understand why you think we have a say over the future at all if we had none to begin with
I am an engineer with 30 years experience in EE, software, farming even longer, have rebuilt cars. Currently involved in a legal case with an opposition lawyer who is dumb af. Even the judge has shaken her head in disbelief at their ignorance of anything but the letter of the law.
And this lawyer has the ability to screw peoples lives over.
Now consider most people are dumber than that. Hard pressed to see where progress is going to come from
Depends on the 100 million; Boomers and GenX roughly make up that number and the Boomer half is already half dead. Millennials on down make up the rest of the 300 million. It won't be a clean break along generational lines due to generational family bonds but Musk and Thiel, most of the other well known CEOs are among the older 100 million. And they do not have the allegiance of most of the other 200 million who will just cement them in their bunker if they make it
> but I am curious what happens when say 100 million people can't meaningfully live in American society.
Nothing good. Social upheaval. Lots of crime. Mass detentions and deportations. Possibly a revolution.
I don't like the use of "nerd" here. There are millions of good nerds, but only a few bad billionaires.
The "third" in “Third Reich” shouldn't be taken as a slur on Brian O'Nolan / Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman.
There are many nerds, this is about those chasing a techno futurist dystopia ruled by digital gatekeepers and dank memes.
Musk and his peers complain that the system doesn’t work. That somehow they’ve been hard done by.
They’re the richest people in history. Did society not work spectacularly for them - why are they obsessed with burning it to the ground?
I don't want to be that guy, but Murdoch also owns much of the Australian media and the "nerd" reich.
Why not both?
They should, but much of Australian media (which is largely Murdoch owned media) never brings it up.
It's why so many Australian journalists ended up being poached by the The Guardian - especially after what happened at "The Australian"
For those of us not in the know, what happened at The Australian?
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