This is my favorite kind of derptopianism. The total collapse of society will finally let us transition to a technology that requires ubiquitous connectivity, extraordinary power consumption, transnational high-tech supply chains, and can handle 10 transactions a minute. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1392190984910360576 …
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The apocalyptic impulse keeps popping up again and again in Silicon Valley (remember the Singularity?) and shows the true contempt the tech elite has for institutions and democracy. Step 1 is always to sweep away the old and do a ground-up rewrite of society
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This is a great accelerationist point! The only practical achievement of cryptocurrency in its 13 years of existence has been to make ransomware a tenable industrial pursuithttps://twitter.com/JodyShenn/status/1392196349291110407 …
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Also made buying drugs on the dark web easier, can’t forget that.
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Yeah but it depersonalized the process! Shooting up isn't the same if you didn't have to wait 2 hours for your guy to show up
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