For eg: You can’t impose “sustainability” as a bolted-on value onto an economy that is based on maximally valuing pristine newness as the default. Imagine an economy where most things peak in quality/value 30% into their lifespan, like living things. Digital stuff is that way.
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No. Values are primary. They are the hardest and the slowest things to change. Many of our values are embedded evolutionarily in who we are as human animals. Technologies can only exist to serve values.
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Agree with that, but Venkat's point works for fake surface-level "values" that are not *terminal* values (e.g. his example of "sustainability").
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this is why I’m sympathetic to the idea of cryptocurrencies being the future. money is the meta-technology, and it’s the last big bite for software to swallow
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Last big bite? Just wait for programmable matter. There's plenty of bites left in this smorgasbord.
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