TailsteakFeb 20
Digital certificates that could, theoretically, be used as tokens of exchange was a phenomenal idea.
Assholes got to it.
Probabilistic generation of new text and media from collected sources was a phenomenal idea.
Assholes got to it.
Is there a way to stop them from getting to the next thing?
Show threadAndrew Drake
@tailsteak short of hunting them for sport (a traditional approach to managing the population of organisms harmful to their local ecosystem!) it seems tough to prevent. Can't build a fence around an idea, and even if you could, they don't need the real deal to sell their grift under the same name 😢
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Show threadAndrew DrakeFeb 20
@tailsteak I do wonder what it would look like to have a project in one of those spaces that actively resisted the assholes, at the time when they were starting to show up in big numbers. Doomed to irrelevance, or could they have carved out a little corner that didn't suck? I guess it takes a lot of strength to keep at it when all the assholes around you are getting infinitely more money and attention.