i wrote a new piece, "Trump, Clinton, and the Electoral Politics of #Bitcoin," suggested by @danlatorre & others https://t.co/uosS38JbGr
— David Golumbia (@dgolumbia) October 14, 2016
@dgolumbia Excellent! The bitcoinsanityTrumpmadness nexus is frightening and urgent right now of course, but I think your second point... 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 14, 2016
@dgolumbia about the susceptibility of the dem-left to futurological pieties is especially important. It's a point that obsesses me now. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 14, 2016
@dgolumbia Ed tech disruptors and green futurists (geo-engineering con artists, eg) throng the party, Gore is a straight up futurist, etc. 3
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 14, 2016
@dgolumbia Many of the party's young go-to intellectuals seem entirely given over to algorithmic entrail-reading & Big Data/AI moonshine. 4
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 14, 2016
@dgolumbia The diversity of the winning Obama coalition has moved the party's politics wholesomely leftward for nearly ten years, but... 5
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 14, 2016
@dgolumbia with GOPs self-immolation moneyed rats are jumping ship: futurology provides dem-"friendly" language for corporate-militarists. 6
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 14, 2016
@dalecarrico agree completely
— David Golumbia (@dgolumbia) October 14, 2016
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
I still think there's something funny about a dude buying imaginary space flights with imaginary money.
ReplyDeleteThe futurological beat is this all the way down.
> > I still think there's something funny about a dude buying
ReplyDelete> > imaginary space flights with imaginary money.
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> 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
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Tech Billionaires: Life Is A Simulation, And We Want To Escape
The Young Turks
Oct 16, 2016
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"Look, Elon Musk is an. . . **interesting** character. . ."
But he's really smart, so we should pay attention to him?
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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."
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Much that passes for "smartness" is access and jargon.
ReplyDeletei'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:
ReplyDeletehttps://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/review-the-politics-of-bitcoin-offers-a-flawed-and-misleading-partisan-view-1476819084
"Aspiring political pundit" was truly funny.
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