> our tools seem to seek to waste the largest amount of time for us Yeah and it might seem fun initially, yet in the long term shit like Alexa and striving for

> our tools seem to seek to waste the largest amount of time for us Yeah and it might seem fun initially, yet in the long term shit like Alexa and striving for artificial ‘human-like interaction’ just creates more alienation. ...and alienation and isolation, and an atomized society, only benefits capital. Our current mode of production aims to keep workers easily replaceable, with projects siloed and in rigid knowledge hierarchies that make workers dependent (and keeps the propertied class propertied), instead of enabling and fostering the individual and collective intellectual and emotional growth and skills of humanity. Instead of AI to keep us ‘company’, we need systems that enable humans to have maximum transparency, agency and participation [1]. Platform cooperativism and ‘protocol cooperativism’ (through projects like http://valueflo.ws http://valueflo.ws and holochain) are imo the most important shifts of our time. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/j...