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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Karen Kommerce‏ @cryptoecongames 30 Nov 2018
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      Interesting perspective, but at heart is a fundamentally dark (personal) perspective that economic and political games are unfair. I have a different view - a bright mirror view. Software eating the world is a good thing - it frees up human ingenuity to do interesting thingshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1068336253827858432 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      Income/wealth inequality is not a good proxy for agency inequality. Many developing countries have high $ inequality but admirably egalitarian levels of suckagency. The system is a robust nexus of homeostatic suckage in which nobody has significantly higher suckagency than others
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Nov 2018
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      I agree with that. It can and will, just not for a generation or so, and it happens to be a critical generation with deep existential risks and collective mental health is failing at the challenge right now.

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    3. Karen Kommerce‏ @cryptoecongames 30 Nov 2018
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      There's a skill to staying online: Don't overshare ASL various data. Create pseudonyms. Be able to walk away. Give zero fucks. Be thoughtful and deliberate.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Nov 2018
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      My point is, at a macro level, of billions faced with this challenge, most are failing to tackle it in Official Healthy and Positive Way (which I've been writing about for years). Category error. Like I'm talking about obesity epidemic and you're saying "crossfit/paleo exist"

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    5. Karen Kommerce‏ @cryptoecongames 30 Nov 2018
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      Actually, no. I'm pointing out that it's an evolutionary pressure and what the adaptations are. I think today's developed market teens are offline more than we are. I think you use category error as an excuse to avoid having your idea challenged and debated.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Nov 2018
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      You're making claims like "UBI will solve it" with no evidence that that's happening fast enough to address issues here. I said it will take a generation. You're sidestepping current generation and its ongoing failures, mismatch between adaptive responses and macro outcomes.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Nov 2018
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      Sounds to me like you're the one evading the challenge/debate of the darker narrative, but if you think I am, then there's no point continuing the discussion. This *is* how I respond to challenges and debate, at least at twitter level.

      12:29 PM - 30 Nov 2018
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        2. Karen Kommerce‏ @cryptoecongames 30 Nov 2018
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          I mean, if you want to have a conversation, have a conversation. If you want to have a vaguely sophisticated idea turd without any rigour, but all moral superiority, referring to years of equally sophistric reasoning (that cannot be easily explained, because, fluffery!) go ahead

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Nov 2018
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          If you want to open and close arguments with ad hominems, go ahead

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        1. Karen Kommerce‏ @cryptoecongames 30 Nov 2018
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          Oh, we're going to have 'you're evading the conversation' talk so you can continue on, smug that your dense idea turd is 'right' and unchallenged. The problem is you haven't even defined the problem beyond some motherhood statements re alleged elite control

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