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I'm going to reiterate a point that needs to be repeated very loudly, as often as possible: Corporations are malignant paperclip maximizers. We are already in
by dTal 4y ago
I'm going to reiterate a point that needs to be repeated very loudly, as often as possible:
Corporations are malignant paperclip maximizers. We are already in an "AI apocalypse". How many people did leaded fuel kill? Lead exposure makes people stupid and violent - how many wars did it indirectly contribute to, how far back has society been held? That's one corporation. One!!
"Corporations bad" is a sort of tired left wing trope at this point but I think that's because the scale of the problem is difficult to wrap one's head around - it's hard to imagine an alternate world. But we didn't choose to inhabit a world run by corporations, it just happened through a process of blind natural selection, and it will kill us all unless we do something about it now. Our current governments are clearly inadequate - we need to be consciously, deliberately, constructing alternate ways of organizing ourselves, as rapidly as possible, to combat the threat of this new lifeform. And make no mistake, it is combat - they will fight back! They will fight back on a level so subtle and insidious that you will be convinced that there is no fight, or that you are powerless, or that the anti-corporate movement is on the wrong side.
What can you do about it? You're an HN reader, you can probably make websites. Build something designed to facilitate collective action. Bring out the best in people. Make it so that when we all know that something is bad, no fucking corporation can pay off the government to be allowed to do it anyway.
- pfdietz 4y agoW. Dow Reider's "Doc Future" e-novels went in this direction, particularly the last not yet finished one. Recommended! https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/62787551366/stories https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/62787551366/stories
- Weneedlead 4y agoNobility used to have the highest lead levels, while violent tribes used to have the lowest. How do you explain that?
- kevviiinn 4y agoYou explain that by understanding that nobility had the resources and influence to get utensils and other kitchenware that were ceramics decorated with lead containing glaze and metals that contained lead. You have causality entirely backwards, eating lead does not somehow turn someone into nobility. That's an absurd conclusion
- kevviiinn 4y agoI can't reply to you because you've posted such nonsense that all your comments are dead. Being born into nobility has nothing to do with anything as people who dine with nobility will use the same utensils. I'm not sure how you don't understand something so simple. Almost like it's deliberately disingenuous. Not to mention you haven't posted a shred of evidence that any of your assertions are even accurate
- Weneedlead 4y ago[dead]
- omniglottal 4y agoIt's almost as if a governing body should exist that's by the people, for the people, wherein corporations are not equivalent to more powerful people....
- dTal 4y agoYes, and? Yes, governments are supposed to protect us. No, they are not adequate to the task[0] - they were designed before this became an obvious problem. We need to move forward from simply complaining about it, and think structurally. [0] (although that varies by country and having a government is almost invariably better than not having one)