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Between e/acc+singularity, hyper-libertarianism and the actual locked-in, rent-seeking, culture-choking techno-feudalism we're getting, it's always been pretty
by CatWChainsaw 2y ago
Between e/acc+singularity, hyper-libertarianism and the actual locked-in, rent-seeking, culture-choking techno-feudalism we're getting, it's always been pretty obvious to me that the "mission" is to become the secular equivalent of a god, and then reign eternal, just like the world-building genre of games primes them for.
Too bad it's a big club and everybody here won't be in it, eh.
- nonrandomstring 2y ago> Too bad it's a big club and everybody here won't be in it, eh. There is some uncomfortable truth in this. Those who identify with technology, and take for granted being its masters, controllers and benefactors, end up the most disappointed. The hoi polloi are happily indifferent to the cargo cult of shiny stuff that comes and goes, which they buy because their friend got one. But those intelligent enough to know what we could have had, what's possible and what's lost, will feel betrayed by larger forces that nobody controls, whatever "big club" you imagine yourself in. It's one thing for a man to lose to lose his faith. It's something else when a priest does.
- CatWChainsaw 2y agoWell, most revolutions succeed when the overproduced elites join the masses to overthrow the rulers. So it's probably a good thing in this case if the priests lose their faith, as long as they do it quickly enough. Otherwise we'll all just be NPCs in Altman's and Zuckerberg's metaverses.