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Cars are a good other example. I only knew how to drive stick when I came here and had to learn automatic. Then I forgot stick. Then after uber and moving to urban core I basically stopped driving unless I have to... don't enjoy it. Gen Z doesn't even want to get licenses.
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Yea, it's funny. In some ways I feel innovative or even avant-garde, and other ways it's like "dude you're a cis straight white dude who does manufacturing companies and still likes neoliberal globalism" Too retro?
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My assumption is that cultural change is the true gating factor, so for those of us accelerationists, we seemingly need to figure out how to increase societal open mindedness to accelerate the pace of change. I'm hoping psychedelics help :D
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I don’t think culture changes. It’s just that old culture people die and new generation anchors on a new era of defaults. The actual gun-like object in today’s world is the phone. You can cause social death with a video and a social media account and it’s totally legal.
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Yea that's a piece of culture, but tech and even our culture's response to tech != culture. For instance, changing attitudes toward civil rights isn't really that related to tech at all.
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Hmm I don’t know. I think of it as part of the response to the military-industrial complex of the 50s, which was primarily a post-ww2 tech based forcing function. Cold War tech scene —> Organization Man —> hippies —> civil rights. I’m a pretty strong tech determinist.
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Yea, I'm pretty similar mostly (see my prev comment that we're long term fine re: fundamentals), but tech/culture are too interrelated. The M.I.-Complex was partially just US geography, but also probably protestant w.e. / our founding myths of frontier helped a lot.
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It'd be interesting to know the Russia ramp up story too. It was weirder with the whole state planning thing, but also a story of learning / knowledge transfer that created a shit load of manufacturing / human capability.
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I think it's interesting that the early 20th c. French economy used to be very entrepreneurial / techie, but WWI/II seemingly destroyed that element of their culture, which has seemingly cost them greatly.
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