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I believe there's a bright future for software that enhances and amplifies our humanity in different ways. What form would that take? If I knew, I'd be working

I believe there's a bright future for software that enhances and amplifies our humanity in different ways. What form would that take? If I knew, I'd be working on it, but I sense a lot of opportunity in un-disenchanting technology for various demographics. As for this tech: it should die in a fire. If the creators read this, they should understand that they are potentially inventing the shackles that they themselves will be bound in (albeit later).

ryandrake 2y ago
> If the creators read this, they should understand that they are potentially inventing the shackles that they themselves will be bound in (albeit later). I think a lot of techies are under the mistaken impression that when they're done building the society of Elysium, for some reason the billionaires are going to take them along to the space station to live with them.
- yapyap 2y ago
  My theory is that the people working on it think they’ll get to a financial ‘class’ high enough in the process of working on tech. Be that over the course of how many decades. That they’ll be up there among them in the space station. Either that or they’re not thinking about the future at all and just doing it for the near instant gratification of a high salary.
  - disqard 2y ago
    > they’re not thinking about the future at all IMO, this is more likely. Speculation on my part, but this evinces the kind of tech-focused education that I personally know to be pervasive in India. The curriculum omits any "history of technology" or "ethics in innovation", so at best, these founders are missing a core part of "humanistic" learning. At worst... well, why go there? They're from privileged backgrounds, and mere ignorance is enough to explain this kind of short-sighted "innovation", without adding malice into the mix.
  - ryandrake 2y ago
    Yea, they're making maybe one order of magnitude more than the average Joe, and they think those piddly $500K of Facebook RSUs are going to be enough to buy them a ticket to the space station.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  The irony being that they will put themselves out of work instead. Well most of us, when software development automation becomes good enough, we will be the new factory workers queuing for food tickets, while a few lucky ones get to be those in charge of the software factory.

ryandrake 2y ago

> If the creators read this, they should understand that they are potentially inventing the shackles that they themselves will be bound in (albeit later). I think a lot of techies are under the mistaken impression that when they're done building the society of Elysium, for some reason the billionaires are going to take them along to the space station to live with them.

yapyap 2y ago
My theory is that the people working on it think they’ll get to a financial ‘class’ high enough in the process of working on tech. Be that over the course of how many decades. That they’ll be up there among them in the space station. Either that or they’re not thinking about the future at all and just doing it for the near instant gratification of a high salary.
- disqard 2y ago
  > they’re not thinking about the future at all IMO, this is more likely. Speculation on my part, but this evinces the kind of tech-focused education that I personally know to be pervasive in India. The curriculum omits any "history of technology" or "ethics in innovation", so at best, these founders are missing a core part of "humanistic" learning. At worst... well, why go there? They're from privileged backgrounds, and mere ignorance is enough to explain this kind of short-sighted "innovation", without adding malice into the mix.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  Yea, they're making maybe one order of magnitude more than the average Joe, and they think those piddly $500K of Facebook RSUs are going to be enough to buy them a ticket to the space station.
pjmlp 2y ago
The irony being that they will put themselves out of work instead. Well most of us, when software development automation becomes good enough, we will be the new factory workers queuing for food tickets, while a few lucky ones get to be those in charge of the software factory.