LupertEverett
Souvlaki Space Station 🛸The idea that competition drives innovation is... just... I mean, we've had neo-liberal ideologists breathing down our necks every waking moment since the 80s, and have you SEEN what passes for innovation lately??
The problem with neo-liberals is, you can point to this a hundred times over and they'll still argue that we simply haven't had enough of their medicine
Come to think of it, all these tech gold rushes like blockchain and genAI are basically -simulacra- of progress and innovation
don't even get me started on the cars they make these days. there was a kind of sweet spot there a couple of years ago and they waved while they sailed right by it
Roger BW 😷@anarchiv i prefer cargo cult. Making a copy that looks like the real thing so that the money will come.
Nicholas Laney@anarchiv
In a sense, ai in particular, is a psychohistorical inevitability.
In a sense, ai in particular, is a psychohistorical inevitability.
@NicholasLaney I'm taking your point
Space Hobo@anarchiv That's largely because they didn't come out of government-funded university or lab research.
Valju Hiltunen@anarchiv just today i thought this. namely, apparently when the EU mandated that car tyres should be designed so that they produce 30% less road dust than before, tyre companies could right away push those tyres to the market. so it was not hard to make apparently, they just hadn't bothered.
what this shows us is that innovation is mostly driven by regulation, not competition. yes, regulation does not stifle innovation, quite the opposite.