If not covid something else would have driven tech in this direction.
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I’m surprised people are surprised so many of us are so ready to trot out such scenarios and already have some literacy in the ideaspace. Do you people not read/watch any scifi? This stuff is tropey to the point it’s actually hard to write new sci-fi that goes beyond.
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The hard challenge of all this is actually underlying moral foundations. The 4 options that already exist: Basic paternalism (right/left Big Brothers) Libertarian paternalism (nudgeology) Cancel culture (anarchic sousveillance) Cookie culture (surveillance capitalism)
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About 2/3 of your life probably is *already* under surveillance conducted under one or more of these moral models. We’re not talking 0 to 1. We’re talking 0.67 to 0.75, incrementalism, with some apps attached. The only genuinely radical option is blockchain-based versions
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Cory Doctorow
@doctorow proposed a version of the radical blockchain type option in Little Brother but afaik, such literary explorations are as close as we’ve ever gotten to real examples of such schemes. Looking forward with
for the MVPs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel) …Show this thread
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