Sublime

O segundo princípio que protegeria a democracia contra o surgimento de regimes de vigilância totalitários é a descentralização.

As Larry Summers and J. Bradford DeLong would write in August 2001, just a month after the file-sharing service Napster was taken down, ‘the most basic condition for economic efficiency … [is] that price equal marginal cost.’ They went on: ‘with information goods, the social and marginal cost of distribution is close to zero.’ This held true not on

threatened by the totalitarian potential of nonhuman intelligence.

The same logic is at work in the economic sphere too. In 1999 the government of Scotland

The idea of progress is built on the notion that if we admit our ignorance and invest resources in research, things can improve.

Does the technology enable asymmetric impact? Think of a drone swarm against the conventional military or a tiny computer or biological virus damaging vital social systems.

(A blueprint of such an alternative model has been suggested recently by Tristan Harris, an ex-Googler and tech-philosopher who came up with a new metric of ‘time well spent’.9)

Modern politics and economics were built on the foundation of the rational pursuit of self-interest.

Credible critics must be practitioners.