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There once was a dream of the semantic web, also known as web2. The semantic web could have enabled easy to ingest information of webpages, removing soo much of the computation required to get the information. Thus preventing much of the AI crawling cpu overhead.
What we got as web2 instead was social media. Destroying facts and making people depressed at a newer before seen rate.
Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.
What crypto gave us was fraud, expensive jpgs and scams. The term web is now even so eroded that it has lost much of its meaning. The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.
Capitalism is grand, innit. Wait, not grand, I meant to say cancer
I feel like half of the blame capitalism gets is valid, but the other half is just society. I don't care what kind of system you're under, you're going to have to deal with other people.
Oh, and if you try the system where you don't have to deal with people, that just means other people end up handling you.
In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn't think it could make them money.
The funniest part is though that it's only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they're most likely never gonna make it back.
It matters a lot though what kind of goal the system incentivises. Imagine if it was people's happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits.
That’s the part people never really seem to understand. It makes sense though because we’re subjected to the system from birth and it’s all a lot of people know so they can’t grasp the idea of a world outside of that so it can sometimes be difficult to get through to people on that
It's definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2
I would give this reddit gold
Instant easy complaints help-i'm-oppressed-by-Capitalism today sound an awful lot like the instant easy complaints help-i'm-oppressed-by-Communism I used to hear from rednecks
Ask someone who starved & died under either system how obviously superior it is, you will find millions on either side
Also consider that Socialism is totally legal under Capitalism. Want to start a co-op? Go for it. Want to legislate and implement socialized healthcare? Many Capitalist countries have.
Under Communism, Capitalism must be illegal and stamped out by force. Want to start a business making shoes and hire someone to work for an agreed upon wage? Illegal.
When the goal involves guaranteeing positive rights, I'm not sure how it can be achieved without coercion. Which is how any socialist policies get implemented under capitalism anyways.
ofc a lot depends on the precise definitions of terms, state corporatism is not synonymous with generally free markets operating under the regulation of a basically diverse inclusive democracy -- but both are referred to as "capitalism"
What if i'm being repressed instead?
Could you clarify on what you mean with “dealing with people”? I’m not really sure the point you’re trying to make with that
The complaint that got blamed on capitalism was:
and if there's one entity/person most responsible for that, it's Putin or the GOP. Most of it is political, and very little to do with capitalism itself. Except that capitalism surrounds and is intertwined with everything.
Still, if you get rid of capitalism, it doesn't get rid of politics. I'd argue that the root of the issue is the GOP trying to hoard power (money and otherwise), and power is going to exist with or without capitalism. Is North Korea capitalist? Do they have issues with disinfo?
This Christian Sharia Law movement doesn't exist for money.
It's ironic that the middlemen showed up anyway and busted all the security of those transfers
You want some bipcoin to buy weed drugs on the slip road? Don't bother figuring out how to set up that wallet shit, come to our nifty token exchange where you can buy and sell all kinds of bipcoins
oh btw every government on the planet showed up and dug through our insecure records. hope you weren't actually buying shroom drugs on the slip rod
also we got hacked, you lost all your bipcoins sorry
At least, that's my recollection of events. I was getting my illegal narcotics the old fashioned way.
Maybe I'm slow today, but what is this referencing? Most dark web sites use Monero. Is there some centralized token that people used instead?
Edit: Oh, I guess you're referring to Mt.Gox? I mean yeah, people were pretty stupid for keeping their bitcoin in exchange wallets (and sending it right to the drug dealers directly from there? Real dumb). That's always a bad idea. I don't think they transferred it there instead of something else, they just never took custody of the coins after buying them on the exchange.
Satoshi was right and Crypto absolutely has valid use cases. What if your government doesn't want you accessing meds you need at prices you can afford? What if your government doesn't like your sexual orientation, but you want a subscription to a dating site? What if your government throws up unjust export controls or tariffs that suddenly make you and your business impossible?
Crypto's best killer use case is uncensorable, untraceable money
Bitcoin is neither of those things. There is a reason people buy heroin with Monero. It actually does what crypto is supposed to do, which means it could safeguard your Grindr XTRA subscription.
Yeah Monero is just cool, tech-wise
I think it refers to custudial wallets and that it's hard to obtain the useful coins without a KYC exchange (that also most often works as a custudial wallet).
aaaaaaaaand - it's gone!
A whole swath of trained toads using a special made tube network?
getting into a car with a stranger who said he was 15 minutes away two hours ago
You were there too? 😜
Holy shit do I not miss that lifestyle
Swallows actually.
Sound like it went the same way everything else went. The less money is involved the more trustworthy it is.
Mr. Internet, tear down these walls! (for all these walled gardens)
Return the internet to the wild. Let it run feral like dinosaurs on an island.
Let the grannies and idiots stick themselves in the reservations and asylums run by billionaires.
Let's all make Neocities pages about our hobbies and dirtiest, innermost thoughts. With gifs all over.
I'm down with that. Web 1.5? Let's do it. I'll get my Geocities page up and then we can rev up that hit counter.
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"Lemme get that hit counter!"
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