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Reading this has destroyed my faith in technology and hope for the future as well. How can we, as sane and rational beings, try to stop this sort of dystopia fr
by astoor 5y ago
Reading this has destroyed my faith in technology and hope for the future as well. How can we, as sane and rational beings, try to stop this sort of dystopia from devouring the human race?
- etrautmann 5y agoplaying it forward, what are the unintended consequences this incentivizes? Assuming a bad actor can get their hands on an orb, then they just need a supply of human eyeballs?
- jollybean 5y agoPrivacy issues are paramount. The other being you can't create value out of thin air by issuing people magic numbers and expecting that to be useful in any way to people.
- etrautmann 5y agoAssuming all money were uniformly distributed, do you think it would tay that way for long? Fixing systemic inequality requires more than initial conditions. The “dynamics matrix” governing money flow also needs to change, otherwise we’ll just find the same local minimum we’re currently at.