No one knows how to do that. Brain computer interfaces can barely move a computer cursor after lots of training and they break after not much use. And no one knows how brains process information, really. It’s not data like a computer. Also, surely not Google, the company? What’s the source?

A universal basic income is what everyone gets unconditionally. If you tell people they only get money if they contribute their brain to corporate data, that's a job. And ripe for abuse, it seems like.

Confronted with what looks like an onslaught of opinion from their voters, politicians will follow it. But the problem is when it's inauthentic, paid for by the exact interests who will lose money and influence if a new regulation passes and unrepresentative of actual humans.

Let's not do that please.

Honored to be part of a Polk Award-winning team, is what I mean.

Plus a dose of being metric-pilled I think. A big part of society equates “makes money” with “good,” and therefore any attempt to stop the moneymaking is bad (and so probably comes from a buncha godless commies with too much empathy).

Obviously Chuck is right about Muppet tech, which should be tightly regulated like any other valuable natural resource.

Like this! Because there is *plenty* of leftist criticism of solar (land use, environmental-type stuff) and batteries (exploited nations, illegal mining) and EVs (car dependency, brake dust, kills transit). It’s OK to look at potential impacts! That’s how you make policy!

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Or maybe 3) that any criticism of technology that worries about its impact of fully implemented the way its makers promise is somehow implicitly “leftist”? Like is the only right-coded permissible critique “will not make money”?

That’s really more of a destination, no?

Ahem. Yes. Well.

Because this idea implies two things: 1) that all tech is an Omelas machine, that it can’t not hurt someone so might as well enjoy it. And 2) that the critics *would* unquestioningly support a left-coded tech. They don’t! When solar panels require exploited resources like coltan etc, that’s bad too!

'ey, how articulated was dis post? *Dis* articulated.

I've know these people for years. They've worked for Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, etc. Now they are working for crypto and venture capital, as vc and crypto underwrite Trump fascism.