keccers
@keccers.eth
You know it’s bad when a TECH person is talking about externalities. The majority of tech people I know simply do not care about negative costs to anything. Making Money Is Good “Progress” Is Good And they do not care who they hurt, what they damage, or what we lose in the process of those 2 things. Perhaps tech bros care about plastic because it’s a consequence they can’t be isolated from. 100% of people, plants and wildlife have to deal with this https://x.com/karpathy/status/1826372336213524715
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Naomi
@naomiii
We got em! I also think this is my biggst issue with e/acc. Like sure we can accelerate things, but have you ever considered that things can remain bad for a very looong time. And that maybe you only hold this view because you have sufficient privilege to shelter from it.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
To me acceleration is worthy of contempt because it elevates technology and science to the place of God. There is an almost religious faith in technology to solve all the problems and know all the things. If we make 100 problems in the course of innovating to solve 1, well we will just add more science on top to solve those 100 new problems. Externalities along the way do not matter. and yes you’re right often they never have to experience the consequences! Recently Marc and Ben of a16z went on a tirade against a newspaper who photoshopped MAGA hats on Ben and his wife. The fact they did this, while their firm funds a company that profits off of non-consensual deepfake porn, is emblematic to me of the whole situation. We, the people, get a16z financed porn made in our likenesses because profit, because progress. We are faceless human capital and we can be sacrificed. But one mildly ‘shopped photo for them and they are burning the boats. Why do we have to take this?
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