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It's been heartbreaking to watch this unfold slowly over my lifetime. The techno optimism I had in the 90s has been crushed by profound despair for the human s
by lordfrito 3y ago
It's been heartbreaking to watch this unfold slowly over my lifetime.
The techno optimism I had in the 90s has been crushed by profound despair for the human species, as I watch the salivating sociopaths among us getting accolades as they invent brand new ways to use this technology to subjugate the rest of us. These are our new role models?
- nerdponx 3y agoPeople have always been like this. I don't know why anybody believed it would be different this time around.
- spacecadet 3y agoSo true. I didn't- Just felt like pointing out the irony.
- pavlov 3y agoIn just 25 years, we went from the early Internet’s “information wants to be free” to the crypto mindset of “we must insert expensive scarcity into digital realms”. And often it’s even the same people. I’m baffled by the Marc Andreessens of this world.