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Something like Urbit probably. Those sorts of ideas sound improbable - it's hard to say whether it takes 10 years or even a different civilization. The Romans
by bachbach 8y ago
Something like Urbit probably.
Those sorts of ideas sound improbable - it's hard to say whether it takes 10 years or even a different civilization. The Romans never managed to pass land reforms.
The Chinese tech sector has gotten around some of it with the assistance of the government - there's glimpses of a different possible future but without full stack revolution it's hard to imagine new types of institutions being created.
I'm really not sure Silicon Valley is able to pivot out of the tar pit it has itself created.
The closest sign of real progress would be if somebody did something that destroyed a ton of Silicon Valley jobs.
I know people think here: AI. I don't think so - as of yet I haven't seen any evidence for autonomous executive complex coordination. It's possible for a machine to do it - that I believe - but it doesn't follow that computers are going to be the machines that do that.