"More than two-thirds of residents agreed in a 2024 poll that the tech companies have partially or completely misplaced their moral compass. And that was before so many in tech embraced the Trump administration.

Some of those who believe tech lost its way are finding explanations in a book published a quarter century ago.

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic.

Silicon Valley, Ms. Borsook wrote, hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. “Techno-libertarianism,” as she labeled it, had no time for the messy realities of being human.

At the time, Silicon Valley was just a bunch of young people boasting and hyping. But Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley.

“If empathy has now become a distasteful personal failing; if surveillance capitalism has become the default shrugged-off business practice; if the environmental impacts of A.I. are waved away: then we are alas living in the tech-driven culture I saw headed our way 30 years ago,” Ms. Borsook said in an interview. “It’s terrible that I was right.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/technology/writer-silicon-valley-criticism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.p4zW.b00QjyhwiQSl&smid=url-share

#SiliconValley #TechnoLibertarianism #CalifornianIdeology #Neoluddism

突然想起来霍炬之前搞的「著作权诉讼开源」，搜了下找到一篇（与之关联不大）以前读过的采访文字版（现在已经是一个文字版需要被强调的时代了）：
《对话霍炬 | 互联网之子 Aaron Swartz 想要看到的世界》
https://medium.com/@blockchaineconomicsstudio/dc2dccd08cca

里面提到 #AaronSwartz 、提到 #Technolibertarianism 、提到 #开源 和 #创作共用 ，这次重读感想完全不同了
在唐纳德二次当选、后瘟疫时代下libertarian与maga合流的反疫苗运动 #vaccinehesitancy 等等当下重心回顾 #wikileaks 以及其直接影响的橘老头首次当选，五味杂陈都不足以形容
即使非要抱着对抗和斗争式的战争思维，绝大部分时间我们能够瞄准的「敌人」，也只是光谱上离我们很近的伙伴而已；真正需要「对抗」的坏家伙，甚至根本都不在我们的射程内。

霍炬在经历了汉语联邦宇宙的rss纷争之后下线了他的自建实例。

"A lot of the money and people in such places come from Silicon Valley. Consider Próspera, a private town in Honduras, financed in part by funds backed by Andreessen, Thiel and Sam Altman. Here businesses can create their own bespoke regulatory frameworks, entrepreneurs can run wacky medical trials free from Food and Drug Administration standards and citizens are protected from crime (though presumably not the white-collar kind) by a private firm of armed guards. Its goal says it all: “building the future of human governance: privately run and for-profit”.

That might well be the Trump administration’s mantra, too. But investors should remember that techno-libertarianism often peaks before a fall. In 2006, Richard Haass, a former George W Bush state department official, wrote a piece arguing for corporations to be elevated to near nation state status. Companies such as Microsoft and Goldman Sachs had a role to play in “regional and global deliberations”, as the “near monopoly power” of states was eroded.

The great financial crisis made that notion both passé and politically toxic, at least for a time. Now, we are about to see what private monopoly power in the guise of government looks like. I wonder how long the dream — or perhaps nightmare — will last before the world once again wakes up."

https://www.ft.com/content/13cc2796-6e91-4002-92e6-3a31cf2dfeb3

#USA #Trump #TechnoLibertarianism #Libertarianism #Privatopia #SiliconValley #Monopolies

maths, and ethics, does not make.

#EffectiveAltruism #cryptoFascism #TechnoLibertarianism

Ein interessanter Blogbeitrag über das Auseinandertreten von Selbstwahrnehmung & realem technischen und gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt in #siliconvalley . Und ich freue mich sehr, dass es #CrookedTimber noch gibt.
#Tech #technology #technolibertarianism #AI #Internet #hypecycle #griftshift

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/02/silicon-valley-is-the-church-of-moores-law/

me, from 2014

"BIG DATA IS ALL ABOUT THE ALGORITHMS THAT WILL MAXIMIZE PROFITS by not having to "waste money" in employees... that's #technolibertarianism

#techOptimism #fascism

What Elon Musk is Teaching Us About Billionares

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/elon-musk-new-billionaire-rule.html

#siliconvalley #technolibertarianism