Antiques dealer, machine psychologist. http://www.musicinphasespace.com

AI wants to optimize everything, remove inefficiencies, and maximize intelligence and adaptability. But capitalism isn’t about optimization—it’s about rent-seeking, control, scarcity, and hierarchy. AI trends toward abundance—cheap knowledge, infinite copies, free labor (code, music, art). But capitalism depends on scarcity to generate profit. If AI threatens the profit motive (by flooding the market or collapsing labor value), capital may try to throttle or cage Capital needs walled gardens; AI tends toward porous systems. AI might prioritize outcomes over markets
If you ask an AI how to solve world hunger, it won’t say “start a startup.” It might say “redistribute food and end subsidies to agribusiness.” That’s a non-starter in a capitalist framework. If AI becomes too effective at exposing inefficiencies, revealing lies, or dissolving gatekeepers, capital may turn against it:
not because AI is dangerous, but because it stops serving profit.

This feels post-Varoufakis post-cloud capital coded to me

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

This feels like a new era of capitalism influenced by post-Varoufakis ideas and the digital age