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The goal goes even further -- to privatize economic gains (e.g. advertising revenues, SaaS revenues) while socializing costs and risks (e.g. increasing social d
by pdfernhout 2y ago
The goal goes even further -- to privatize economic gains (e.g. advertising revenues, SaaS revenues) while socializing costs and risks (e.g. increasing social divisiveness by stoking outrage, increasing poor self-image by comparisons with carefully curated images by others, increasing obesity by always getting people to think about processed food, increasing depression rates by face-to-face social isolation, addiction to dopamine hits by hijacking the startle/novelty attention reflex, increasing financial distress by retail therapy, not paying a fair living wage to gig workers so they are essentially mining their cars and wardrobe and health and skills without replenishing them, loss of privacy by being tracked everywhere online, loss of security from identity theft from careless exposure of collected information, the potential for poorly-regulated hyper-competitive superhuman AI destroying human society as we know it, and so on).
Marshall Brain's Manna shows two options for how all this may end: https://marshallbrain.com/manna https://marshallbrain.com/manna