Gray Tribe

One other thing that worries me is how a lot of recent SV tech rhetoric is much more nationalist than before. Ensuring "we" win the global competition. People being tribal is inevitable and can sometimes be channeled toward good, but it's not the sort of thing you want from a global technological vanguard community. I much prefer the old SV that idealistically identified itself with the progress of all of humanity.

One reason I really appreciate crypto is that I think it still has that spirit.

Well at least tech right has a broader sense of “we” than right right

Also the public arguments aren’t necessarily the private views.

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A hs friend who works as a nurse and is far afield from such stuff mentioned the other day that there’s no planetary call 

I daydream of a worms eye lonely planet unabashed premium mediocre globalism 

Fun fact: in the history of us calls for an article five con con, post ww2 six states wanted a worldwide federation