[1/3] Regarding NFTs, it is disheartening to see Silicon Valley being proud of creating artificial scarcity. Physical scarcity is something humanity fought to overcome for almost our entire history. Creating scarcity is never something anyone should ever be proud of.
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Replying to @cmuratori @CalamityJive
I literally only learned of NFTs last week, but overnight they seem to be everywhere. I would agree with you except for one thing: I’m seeing artist actually make money for a change. Artist deserve to make a living. Until I learn more, gotta believe this is a net plus.
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NFTs actually create less scarcity. There's no DRM, there's no blocking anyone from accessing or enjoying anything. There's nothing 'scarce' about it.
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That is false. While it is certainly possible for NFTs to be used that way, that is not the majority of currently proposed commercial uses - most involve things like using NFTs to ensure that only one person in a virtual environment has a particular item, etc.
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Fair, i was only thinking of it from the art perspective. But that kind of digital scarcity already exists, doesn't it? Except anything you digitally 'own' is locked in the proprietary system.
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There's nothing wrong with NFTs as compared to existing server-based authentication. It's just we should not be celebrating them. As the original tweet stated, the point is _it isn't anything to be proud of_. It should be viewed as what it is: a temporarily necessary evil.
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Replying to @cmuratori @msfeldstein and
So RAD game tools code being closed source and selling to epic, is that a temporary evil until UBI happens and everything is open source? Note: this isn't my view, I'm just trying to find the line and/or limits to your position in a context relevant to you personally.
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Replying to @00jknight @cmuratori and
Maybe I do believe in the plausibility of a utopia where everything is open source and everyone gets UBI... I think your framing of NFT as artificial scarcity is a valid perspective, just wondering if you think _any_ scarcity is valid or if you believe in an open UBI utopia.
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Well I don't know if I "believe in an open UBI utopia", I just want people to acknowledge the fact that intellectual property is not "good" for its own sake. It's actually bad by itself. The reason we need it is because we have to tie intellectual and physical economies together.
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Replying to @cmuratori @00jknight and
So to see people keep celebrating new ways of making IP more pernicious - ESPECIALLY when intellectual centers currently take the majority of the wealth for themselves - makes me disheartened. It just looks like greed to me, not progress.
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