I'm so confused. Should I be rooting for the WorldCoin guy, or a bunch of LessWrong true believers?
Shawn Hargreaves
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Dev manager on the Direct3D team at Microsoft. Mount Rainier is my spirit mountain (web1 hobby project: https://hikingtahoma.com).
Mandu 🥟A curious consequence of the crypto world consisting of fraud layered on scam built on lies:
SBF is probably going to get a long sentence (deserved from what I can see) for his fraud (which was real) on account of the incredibly large dollar values involved. But those dollar values are only so large if you buy into underlying and even bigger frauds around asset valuation. In reality, many of those who lost imaginary value in the FTX collapse had actually been scammed in a more subtle way at an earlier stage of their crypto onboarding.
RamenCatholic 🐢🌈
Dan GoodinThe response to this post has been mixed. Some people strongly support it, others . . . not so much.
So far, none of the people protesting have disagreed with my underlying premise, that engaging on Twitter brings legitimacy to a toxic platform with an agenda no different than Breitbart or Daily Stormer. Instead, they say all their friends are still there, so . . . why should they leave?
To these people I say: Sorry, to harsh your buzz, but the fact is Twitter is a far-right platform. That ship sailed a little over a year now. It's only a matter of time until Elon begins medling in the 2024 US presidential election on a scale that will dwarf Facebook's Cambrindge Analytica scandal. Twitter should be isolated from mainstream society. Continue to normalize it with your tweets, likes and retweets if you must, but history isn't going to judge that kindly.
This will make no sense to my non-tech friends.
Yesterday, Marc Andreessen (parasitic slimeball extraordinaire, who exemplifies everything wrong with capitalist Silicon Valley venture capital culture) published a "manifesto" that is just gross.
That was not particularly surprising, because I was already confident in my judgement of what kind of person he is.
Since then, many tech luminaries have been commenting on it. Including several very influential people that I'd had doubts about but was unsure. This has proven very clarifying.
John Carmack? Slimeball.
Tim Sweeney? Slimeball.
Anyone capable of reading what Marc wrote and not reacting with visceral disgust is a piece of shit.
Evan ProdromouSo, if I were going to make a tech manifesto, it might be something like:
- protocols not platforms
- coops and unions
- technology should not actively hurt us
- people not users
- seven generations, seven continents
- free markets require antitrust enforcement
Charlie StrossELEVATOR PITCH: A techbro with an AI startup buys rights to dead horror stars, plans a blockbuster movie starring Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, and Peter Cushing, scripted & directed by an AI simulation of Ed Wood. (Grimes will star as leading lady, obvs.)
The AI horror star simulations are offended and instead of joining SAG-AFTRA they take over the 3D printed android bodies of their characters in the movie and go on a murderous rampage at the Techbro's fundraiser gala.
Incredibly proud of my sister Josie for speaking truth to power and holding government accountable, at great personal cost: