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If only. They’re so big they buy up other companies. They’ve captured politics to make change near impossible. Getting them to undo income inequality or anything not self serving is more than just an uphill climb.

I think a lot of the people concerned are thinking about the future and what it might look like with big tech, corporations, social media being like now but more so. Able know everything about everyone and tap into that with some kind of ai at the helm to manipulate people en masse. Or whatever. I’m not sure what they all think. But other people think that hardcore privacy is going to put uk/eu at a disadvantage because the ai will be developed by other countries with less strict data privacy controls. So, they say it will be a vast technology deficit for those countries. using what stuff for free? Most of the tech and internet ground floor was developed with tax payer dollars. Ive paid for subscriptions (still do) Ive watched plenty of ads, bought plenty of devices and paid for plenty of over priced internet service to access these services. Ain’t none of this shit “free”. I’m not particularly worried about anything I put online but do use ad blockers and turn off tracking/snooping/cookies in some places to limit the creepy feeling of be pursued by ad bots or whatever. Also, like to know when some site I gave my email to is going to sell it along with any data they collect. regarding the future, that dude in the Hagens video expects that some people who do something well, anything, will be higher priority targets for ai to model so then that can be used in some way. So, things could get pretty weird and likely will be weird regardless of what happens. There’s a heavy dose of tech optimism in some of what he says but if things do go in an exponential curve with how ai advances then all bets are off on these things having limitations and the idea of “free” is a bit weird to think. I mean we’re being marketed to anytime we go anywhere on line. Also, these companies are the largest most wealthy and influential companies to ever exist. They’re doing fine. They have enough to pay some kind of data tax or submit to some kind of oversight or guard rails and not make the people obsessed with infinite growth be too butthurt

there are people arguing that at a minimum users of sites should have to opt in to having their data scraped.. or be able to opt out.. others argue for things like "data banks" which collect our data on our behalf and then license it. the horse is pretty much out of the barn though for us.. but perhaps future generations? but then it won't matter because the Ai will be trained and 'trusted' and normalized and it'll be teaching kids via tablet tutors and shit.

sure. anything can be used. narratives compete. i mention Hagens' podcast because there's a wide range of guests with lot's of different experiences in different fields. as for degrowth and depopulation.. those things may happen as a result of what could and likely will happen when/if the climate problem arrives in totality. We're already overshooting earth's boundaries.. the guy who led the party on figuring out the essential systems that need to be maintained for survival of humanity said we're overshooting 6 of 9 boundaries already. degrowth as a way to save what exists wouldn't be equitable. our system isn't built on equity and the people w/all the things won't want to give up anything. see USA as example. we consume more than anyone and will keep that up, holing on w/our fingernails until we use up all the shitty shale oil in our borders... the constant narrative i hear hagens talking is we've been having a cheap energy party because of fossil fuels and that shit is coming to an end and it's not just climate that's the problem but toxic everything, plastics, biomass, extinction etc All of that is of course echoed by a wide range of people in a wide range of places. he has his particular angle or ax to grind which to me seems fair and reasonable and helpful. depopulation etc may happen eventually with declining fertility and sperm counts and all that stuff. for better or worse. degrowth may be forced on the world but it may be worse than that unless some break throughs happen real soon or everyone goes nuclear for power in a hurry. i don't know shit though. speculation is all most people have though people who know a lot about different fields have more accurate speculation than mine of course. some tend towards doomer scenarios and others towards probably overly optimistic ones. so, idk. shit is gonna happen.. what will that shit be? [throws hands in air] i can only guess. hopefully people prepare and plan and get to know their neighbors.

fox gonna fox.

interesting. he's probably aware of Nate Hagens' youtube channel. his podcast gets into some territory that is around that neck of the world but often quite rooted in problem solving and the science of things.. lot's of big picture things too though.. and philosophical at times. https://www.youtube.com/@thegreatsimplification

which is his specialty? Schopenauer by chance?

el nino -> la nina switch coming up = hurricane season kicking off in april possibly.. all because warmer waters.. it'll be "pure luck" if we don't get smashed hard this hurricane season.

track 3 pretty dope. like the submerged in froth vibe.

laura dern tanget

can't remember if it was "citizen ruth" or "wild at heart" when my adoration of laura dern began but at this point it doesn't matter. citizen ruth though.. what a film. still relevant of course.

posted in the social media thread but guess it fits here mo betta this guy argues for open source Ai so we can see the code and know what's going on. interesting thoughts on Ai tutors in the futre for kids.. basically raising kids.. argument now is about alignment and who gets to align the Ai w/it's world view/biases. ugh scary shit.

edit: i guess this could go in the Ai thread. edit edit: haven't paid attention to cory doctorow in years but this came up today.. it's from sept. 2023. interesting speech. sort of dovetails w/some of the stuff in this thread.

these looks at the observable is mind boggling. the distances are unfathomable.

was having a good sleep and a wrong number woke me up when my phone was vibrating. first solid sleeping like the dead type sleep in a long time and fucking wrong number wakes me up. i didn't answer just looked at it later and it was a call from minnesota.. going to start putting the phone in a drawer or something.

a friend of mine did dmt and 'died' and was reborn into outer space.. came out a big vagina into space.. and saw the birth of the earth.. and a bunch of solar events and some kind of death/birth sequence where he became a baby and stuff.

matt tabbi.. wtf happened to that guy. used to do some solid reporting and investigative journalism type stuff.

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