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>Will we develop new ways to let people express their own values in democracies, or will we just get much better at manipulation? Is there even the tiniest rea
by viccis 2mo ago
>Will we develop new ways to let people express their own values in democracies, or will we just get much better at manipulation?
Is there even the tiniest reason to suspect that the people steering this progress will use it for the democratic good of all?
- watutalkinbout 2mo agoIt's like Musks duplicitous argument about unlimited abundance. We have a lot of abundance now, we just keep accelerating it all into the hands of fewer and fewer people - whose response is only to want more, and more, and more.
- hackinthebochs 2mo agoYeah, we really should just storm the facility where Musk is hoarding all the worlds bread and meat. Wealth in terms of capital doesn't represent material goods, it represents the system's confidence in your ability to direct capital efficiently. But eventually efficient capital bottoms out at consumable goods. Someone like Musk with a lot of capital under his control is contributing to the end goal of unlimited abundance.
- jdub 2mo agoWith his shitty cars, orbital garbage, or CSAM generator? Or his moneyed attacks on democracy and communications? Or his vandalism of government programs without insight, experience, or qualification? In a free and fair market, his capital would be regarded as a deeply inefficient distortion.
- watutalkinbout 2mo agoI agree. The end goal is unlimited abundance (for a handful of people). Let's not pretend that capital is actually directly efficiently, tulip.
- koe123 2mo agoIn fact the opposite, look at talks by Peter Thiel. At least he’s being honest. These people are bastards, but for some reason moral goodness and wealth has been conflated leading us to venerate greed.