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The world of "tech" seems to be spiralling into a realm of absurd metaverses, the dark obsessions of a tiny gang of annointed leaders, a house of cards, lies bu

The world of "tech" seems to be spiralling into a realm of absurd metaverses, the dark obsessions of a tiny gang of annointed leaders, a house of cards, lies built upon lies, increasingly desperate hypes. The whole thing detached from the deteriorating human reality, a pervasive lack of empathy for our condition. Not clear how we could / should respond to this grand fiasco. Somehow tech needs to be reinvented. Much more grassroots, more authentic, more focused on real problem solving.

atourgates 3y ago
The upside of those absurd metaverses is that you can mostly just ignore them, and do your own thing.
pavel_lishin 3y ago
Everything is fandom.
dogman144 3y ago
Don’t shoot the messenger but the developer scene in crypto is like you describe. People trying out cool and strange ideas with very low technical barriers to entry once you understand the architecture and development paradigms. Lots of interesting personalities and deep tech bonafides. A lot of people doin their own thing focused deep in the infrastructure or user facing apps. There are power players and centralization, and the above freedom exists for marketing/product people as well and imo this is where most of the fraud comes from. But ultimately - no one controls pushing a new app onto a blockchain. for a lot of reason, idk if blockchain will solve or help solve the centralized internet issue. But it’s got a lot of freedom and oddities like the 90’s internet did.
fullshark 3y ago
Here here. I have no solution, the money/windfall is too perverting a force.
TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> The whole thing detached from the deteriorating human reality, a pervasive lack of empathy for our condition. This is a result, not a cause. This is learned helplessness in the face of not being able to vote for change, and having no say in the policies of our country. The US government has become 100% beholden to the deep state and the oligarchy. We squabble over left/right social issues while both parties are in almost total lockstep with spending and foreign policy. I mean, I'd love to be proven wrong in next year's election, with some definite outsiders trying to muscle into the circle. And, even if one of them does get elected, we've already seen how one supposed outsider fared against this machine already. If both Vivek and RFK run as independents, it would at least be a BONKERS election cycle.
- KingShabibo 3y ago
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atourgates 3y ago

The upside of those absurd metaverses is that you can mostly just ignore them, and do your own thing.

pavel_lishin 3y ago

Everything is fandom.

dogman144 3y ago

Don’t shoot the messenger but the developer scene in crypto is like you describe. People trying out cool and strange ideas with very low technical barriers to entry once you understand the architecture and development paradigms. Lots of interesting personalities and deep tech bonafides. A lot of people doin their own thing focused deep in the infrastructure or user facing apps. There are power players and centralization, and the above freedom exists for marketing/product people as well and imo this is where most of the fraud comes from. But ultimately - no one controls pushing a new app onto a blockchain. for a lot of reason, idk if blockchain will solve or help solve the centralized internet issue. But it’s got a lot of freedom and oddities like the 90’s internet did.

fullshark 3y ago

Here here. I have no solution, the money/windfall is too perverting a force.

TheRealDunkirk 3y ago

> The whole thing detached from the deteriorating human reality, a pervasive lack of empathy for our condition. This is a result, not a cause. This is learned helplessness in the face of not being able to vote for change, and having no say in the policies of our country. The US government has become 100% beholden to the deep state and the oligarchy. We squabble over left/right social issues while both parties are in almost total lockstep with spending and foreign policy. I mean, I'd love to be proven wrong in next year's election, with some definite outsiders trying to muscle into the circle. And, even if one of them does get elected, we've already seen how one supposed outsider fared against this machine already. If both Vivek and RFK run as independents, it would at least be a BONKERS election cycle.

KingShabibo 3y ago
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