I’m frankly disappointed that the primary response of the tech industry to being scapegoated for a 400 year backlog of civilizatiional sins in which we’re all complicit has been... to meekly accept it by creating a religion around Waldenponding, hustleporn, and Atonement UX
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Those sincere about the religion are mostly powerless while those who have power are mostly insincere and happy to buy off the sincere with compliance theater. This is a good thing as far as that dynamic goes. Given enough time, the sociopaths outmaneuver the clueless as always.
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But the cost is that power selects for theater directors better at managing optics for the benefit of religious tech masses, and at getting cozy with regulators, than at unleashing promethean forces. So Tech slows to human pace; not obscene enough to create wealth. Tech dies.
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As a tech field’s propensity to deliver promethean value wanes, it’s drives towards innovation will get dispersed and more subsumed into the normal societal quagmire of organizational dysfunction. Decline of moores law will coincide with infotech becoming just another industry
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I get the point, but I think tech slows to human pace because even the best human minds can't run any faster than we are right now.
Your concerns are noted, but I don't see actual slowdown at the level I care about, just a whole lot of outrage that it might occur.
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