What I admire about Metalabel is that you’re not just complaining about this, but you’re actually trying to build infrastructure that can help people cooperate better. Do you think tools and technologies can achieve that?
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We're launching a platform in the fall that will make the process of a group of people, creative people starting a... See more
Yancey Strickler on the wide chasm between theory and reality
The hard problem is earning the right to hold people’s memory. The best way to preserve agency and fight technological fascism is by making the alternative so culturally compelling that people choose it because it serves them better and is more fun.
Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them.
Clocks created a culture of anxiety.
Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.
All new tech is scary, it's not just AI.
• trains — the female body was feared to not be able to go over 50 mph, lest the uterus "fly out of the body"
• subways — going underground was cursed because it brought you "closer to the devil"
• elevators — early... See more