In an innovation which is pretty cyberpunk, I’ve run into N>2 instances of professionals in Japan using a Facebook account named, without loss of generality, Taro Company. This is presumably because FB messenger runs a lot of Japan business communications.
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Replying to @patio11
Weird inversion of how the British East India Company was sometimes nicknamed “John Company”
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
I think this device was literally used in Snow Crash (receive a last name when you gain an organizational affiliation on employment e.g. John FBI) but I might be misremembering the book.
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Replying to @patio11
I understand the third tweet in this sequence (patronym = corporate / clan affiliation) but I don't quite follow the first two expand, plz?
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also, a question for both of you: reading this via Byrne https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes … & had a thought: if we went through a 25 or 50 year period of socialism, what subtle but important aspects of capitalism might we forget as a culture? Not forecasting - socialists (try) to do that
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Replying to @MorlockP
Think you could probably pick a few of the items from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3bfWCPfu9AFspnhvf/traditional-capitalist-values … Given your use case as an author I'd encourage you to have *sympathetic* characters do *unsympathetic and odd* things.
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e.g. A technically sophisticated lawful good non-capitalist society which has a deep commitment to its internal logic should have a constantly running process looking for outlier success and thoroughly investigate it on the assumption that it is necessarily the result of crime.
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And if same person gets investigated every year they should a) face *increasing* skepticism from the process each time they are cleared (e.g. replace investigator with one they haven't corrupted, refuse to apologize, etc) and b) perhaps convince themselves that they are guilty.
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And the tightrope to walk here is that the lazy way to say Socialism Is Bad is to say that the investigator is there to punish success. The investigator isn't interested in that. They, and their incentive structure + boss, assume it is statistically impossible and must be fake.
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Odd that no one needed to state that a non-lazy way of saying socialism is bad was desired.
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