🚨👿 "Andreessen: billionaire triumphalist extolling the genius of an anarcho-cap system *provides people with iPhones & autos but denies HC & homes to millions -like other #TechBros *dream of billions of humans living in outer space.
Biggest changes might come from #AI tech, as chatbots allow us to produce more. But the work we perform will not necessarily be better -bc AI isn't as creative as we are, work products may be more mundane & predictable."
TY @stevenlevy
Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” borrows the format and ideas from the Futurist Manifesto. “Futurist” sounds cool until you find out that they merged with Italy’s Fascist Party and their leader, one Benito Mussolini.
We can't let anarcho-cap billionaire #TechBros destroy us. Let's find ways to discredit their faulty work, dangerous tech, & vote the Republican enablers out:
"Marc Andreessen, who runs one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capital firms, wrote a "manifesto" today labeling “social responsibility" and "tech ethics" teams "the enemy."
His firm recently pivoted from crypto/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology." -Ben Collins
His thesis is the tired one that progress is always good and that the previous models for progress are and have been the most successful, in that progress comes at the expense of other people, that it's predicated on extracting as much as possible without breaking the power structure
Google started these at the end of 2019, as efforts to create a #labor#union of their tech workers caused a lot of drama because it revealed their well-hidden toxic work culture.
techbros not only used the pandemic to bust any efforts to unionize tech workers.
anti-union Silicon Valley pivoted to hyping AI, as software-as-a-slave-service
May this era of Elon Musk, Sam Bankman Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, etc. teach us the stupidity of worshiping self appointed industry Messiahs, cult of personality business models, and the notion that Silicon Valley and Stanford are the ones (hell according to the mythology the only ones) who will drive us into a better future. Frankly, more often than not they drive us to dystopias rather than a better future for anyone other than themselves. #FTX#ElonMusk#SiliconValley#techbros#TechBrosShouldNotExist#BillionairesShouldNotExist FTX’s Organizational Chaos
If the video ad for your new cool product or service mainly features a dude with a huge long beard talking directly to the camera, I'm sorry that's an IMMEDIATE NOPE from me. #techbros
@futurism
> Guy fails to get AI-run company off the ground by not actually getting its proposed spam-site going.
Unsure if #AI's problem here was that it couldn't pull it in the real world it has no way to understand, or that #TechBros are almost always grifters who make big promises with empty follow through... 🤔
Do all those #billionaire#TechBros realise that without the #Amazon rainforests the world will change beyond recognition and in ways they cannot buy or game their way out of?
2018/2019 war Patrick Spek für ein paar Monate mein Kollege. Dank einer Terapeutin ist mir die Flucht gelungen. Samantha McVey sass in der Zeit öfter bei uns in der Kantine rum. Unvergesslich sind für mich Speks Ausführungen vor Ort, dass man Frauen keine wichtigen intellektuellen Aufgaben überlassen darf, weil sie emotionell sind.
@mho Breaking news, the #techbros#youtube & #twitter are doing their damnedest to crush the excellent news that was previously coming out of #ukraine via social media and the #fediverse just isn’t event vaguely close
Ein superinteressantes Buch : Douglas Rushkoff, "Survival Of The Richest". Eine kritische Analyse des Mindsets von Techbros, und sehr interessant auch in Hinblick auf die #KlimaKatastrophe. #bookstodon#books#buch#techbros
"As Gabe Newell, billionaire founder of the game platform Valve, explained it to Wired: “We're way closer to the Matrix than people realize.” For Newell, the human body is a mere “meat peripheral” that is resistant to upgrades or repair and “not at all reflective of consumer preference.” Virtual reality will give users more “choice” (we'll hear that word a lot) over their perception and experience of the world. His goal is to create a virtual reality with such compelling texture and granularity that we stop measuring simulations by their fidelity to the real world. “The real world will seem flat, colorless, blurry compared to the experiences you'll be able to create in people’s brains.”
This will be especially valuable as the real world continues to degrade. VR developers even make an economic justice case for throwing us all into a simulation.
"It is not possible, on Earth, to give everyone all that they would want,” Oculus Rift Chief Technology Officer John Carmack explained on the Joe Rogan podcast: “Not everyone can have Richard Branson's private island.” VR is the new solution to climate change—or maybe the ultimate surrender to its inevitability. As resources vanish and economic conditions worsen, technological simulations can fill in where real wealth has disappeared. “The promise of VR is to make the world you wanted.”
When i was in primary school, we would have weird recess debates about who the worst dictator was. Hitler? Zedong? Stalin? A dark horse (Pinochet, Franco, Pol Pot)?
Techbros are the modern equivalent. Who's the worst? Google? Zuckerberg? Dorsey? Musk (bought in but still)?
Is this why the corporate ruling class, esp. #TechBros, doesn't care if millions of us die from #Covid, #GunViolence, the #ClimateCrisis...? Many of us won't be needed if they get their way:
Generative #AI will upend the workforce, McKinsey says, forcing 12M job switches & automating away 30% of hours worked in the U.S. economy by 2030.