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- I don't want to be that guy, but Murdoch also owns much of the Australian media and the "nerd" reich.by alephnerd
- Musk and his peers complain that the system doesn’t work. That somehow they’ve been hard done by.
They’re the richest people in history. Did society not work spectacularly for them - why are they obsessed with burning it to the ground?
by hiharryhere - I don't like the use of "nerd" here. There are millions of good nerds, but only a few bad billionaires.by adamredwoods
- Everything happening in America is a choice. Policy is a choice. Whatever you believe or values you have, what your congressmen, senators and president do, is a choice. Most things that benefit normal people are not "too hard". This country has a policy constructed to benefit 10,000 people at the expense of 330m. I am not a pessimist, but man, it is shocking. There is only like 1 out of 500 people in power that genuinely values democracy, this country or the people. I am sure it will be somewhat great for the people at the top, but I am curious what happens when say 100 million people can't meaningfully live in American society.by wand3r
- IMO, the way tech has moved from ownership to subscription based terms pretty much marked most of us would end travelling on a dark and poorly lit path, but I never realised the extent of the bigger problem [1] [2]
Technofeudalism could be further amplified with LLMs / AI. Expect a small fraction of its overall output as useful, the rest will be spent on population analysis to keep the population in it's place. First step; just remove good public search engines that deliver good results regardless of where one lives or their place in society.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-05/what-is-technofeudali...
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