okay, so idealism. to almost everybody, this means "believing in the possibility of a better world where everybody can have better lives" or some shit. to a few weirdos, it means some other shit like "ideas are the real world of which the world of objects is a mere shadow".
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is the crisis of The Current Year the liberal strategy of changing hearts and minds running out of steam against the stark wall of real world economic contraction and desperately doubling down in hopes that one last big load of gasoline will finally put out the fire? stay tuned!
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Isn't the idea of software hacking in this scenario that if the right behavior is produced via hacking, this will change material conditions, which changes the software and voila feedback loop?
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i honestly don't know whether it'd be fair to call that the core idea, there's so much triumphant announcement that software is completely arbitrary and is all we need
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a secret terror i have is the people controlling society know how to cycle brain hacks like they're rotating crops & humanity may never be able to shed its oppression as a result
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Twiddling software only changes behavior to the extent it changes incentives. Change the incentive landscape, and opinion manipulation software won’t be as effective:http://IdeaMarkets.org
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That's why you twiddle the software installer if you want to make lasting change at the individual level. And maybe you have to get rid of a lot of malicious software. <_< >_>
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