Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All

Friday, October 14, 2016

Tech Talk Trump Talk

6 comments:

Chad Lott said...

I wrote an article about Bitcoin for a magazine called BelleSF and went to two Bitcoin meetups. The first was the month before the mainstream news picked it up as a story and the crowd was pretty cool, geeky, and seemed really focused on the allure of the blockchain. I remember leaving there not convinced there'd be any sort of revolution, but happy that some people were having fun with the Ham Radio of money.

I met several newly minted bitcoin millionaires at that event. One guy paid off his home with his winnings (intentional use) and booked two flights on Virgin Galactic. I still think there's something funny about a dude buying imaginary space flights with imaginary money.

The second event was a month after the story broke and the room was filled with cretins and dickheads with every scheme imaginable. It's a weird scene for sure. There was even one guy asking people to donate money to fund rebels in the Ukraine.

Dale Carrico said...

I still think there's something funny about a dude buying imaginary space flights with imaginary money.

The futurological beat is this all the way down.

jimf said...

> > I still think there's something funny about a dude buying
> > imaginary space flights with imaginary money.
>
> The futurological beat is this all the way down.

Hey, who programmed Donald Trump into my simulation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxy-BAaYeqA
----------
Tech Billionaires: Life Is A Simulation, And We Want To Escape
The Young Turks
Oct 16, 2016
====

"Look, Elon Musk is an. . . **interesting** character. . ."
But he's really smart, so we should pay attention to him?

----------
Winston shrank back upon the bed. Whatever he said, the
swift answer crushed him like a bludgeon. And yet he knew,
he knew, that he was in the right. The belief that nothing
exists outside your own mind – surely there must be some
way of demonstrating that it was false? Had it not been exposed
long ago as a fallacy? There was even a name for it, which
he had forgotten. A faint smile twitched the corners of
O'Brien's mouth as he looked down at him.

"I told you, Winston," he said, "that metaphysics is not
your strong point. The word you are trying to think of is
solipsism. But you are mistaken. This is not solipsism."
====

Dale Carrico said...

Much that passes for "smartness" is access and jargon.

D. Gloumbia said...

i'm sure you saw thx to trackback, but I want to state publicly how proud I am to be lumped in with you by insane "i'm not a rightist" Bitcoin-soaked rightist:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/review-the-politics-of-bitcoin-offers-a-flawed-and-misleading-partisan-view-1476819084

Dale Carrico said...

"Aspiring political pundit" was truly funny.