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Great question. I mean that. But maybe put differently: > What is happening to personal responsibility? It sure as heck is changing a lot when powerful player

by patcon 7y ago

Great question. I mean that. But maybe put differently: > What is happening to personal responsibility? It sure as heck is changing a lot when powerful players derive algorithmic insight that allows them to know/predict us better than we can ourselves and our communities, plus three things: 1. we can't keep up as individuals, 2. our governments (the last invention that helped us keep up,) can't keep up, and 3. we haven't evolved current institutions (including companies) to keep up on our behalf. My money is on co-operatives -- democratic companies: [tech] worker co-ops and #platformcoop We need things to push back, this time not on authority/power/money (old labour organizing days) so much as push back on capacity to know us and render us easily legible and influenced Here's a place if you care to explore how tech folks are starting to play with this old-as-the-hills stuff that maybe hasn't been urgent enough up until now: https://community.coops.tech https://community.coops.tech

buildzr 7y ago
Interesting, I feel it's actually getting even easier to make responsible decisions, without the advice I got from the internet I'd probably be picking individual stocks and my mortgage structure would look a lot worse. Carrying a calculator in your pocket even helps make those little decisions at the store easier.
- patcon 7y ago
  Ah I can see that. But it feels like a red herring to me...? As in, those gains aren't accruing equally. Even among people, tech savvy monetizable upper-middle class people get tech sic'd on their dilemmas first. But between orgs and people, I worry it's an even bigger chasm. It's Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" in recursion, where accrual of knowledge capital (specifically about individuals, and their probability space of actions accessible through newfound data streams), not financial capital. Anyhow, thanks for engaging :)

by patcon 7y ago

buildzr 7y ago

Interesting, I feel it's actually getting even easier to make responsible decisions, without the advice I got from the internet I'd probably be picking individual stocks and my mortgage structure would look a lot worse. Carrying a calculator in your pocket even helps make those little decisions at the store easier.

patcon 7y ago
Ah I can see that. But it feels like a red herring to me...? As in, those gains aren't accruing equally. Even among people, tech savvy monetizable upper-middle class people get tech sic'd on their dilemmas first. But between orgs and people, I worry it's an even bigger chasm. It's Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" in recursion, where accrual of knowledge capital (specifically about individuals, and their probability space of actions accessible through newfound data streams), not financial capital. Anyhow, thanks for engaging :)