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Poll: Your techno-political philosophy (assuming you at least get the concept of manual gear shifting as a metaphor even if you can drive a stick-shift)
  • Accelerationist
    32%
  • Brakist
    3.3%
  • Clutchist
    38.7%
  • I’ll walk, thanks
    26%
181 votesFinal results
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You know automation/AI has already started eating the world when you have to explain the idea of a "clutchist" because automatic gearboxes have made them unfamiliar concepts. So there is no natural automotive metaphor for leveling up.
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fwiw, my rough map: Engine: network-effect exponential tech Accelerator: monetary policy Brake: welfare policy Clutch = transformed understandings of "human" Drivetrain: marketing Wheels: mass-humans Tires: Externality buffers Chasis: infrastructure Body: institutions
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