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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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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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    2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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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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    3. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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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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    5. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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      A given culture definitely changes over time unless you have a very different definition of culture or change. Can you elaborate?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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      I use the Douglas Adams definitionpic.twitter.com/SWnbHBXdb9

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    7. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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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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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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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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    9. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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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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    10. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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      i.e. it took a lot of cultural gumption/will to think the WWII ramp up was even possible, especially during the Great Depression.

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      Also just 2 decades of learning the techhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1246567982932742144?s=21 …

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      Next twitter live read for pandemic, Freedom’s Forge, on WW2 industry/economic mobilization recommended by @jamesgiammona Let’s see how this one goes. https://amzn.to/39IlHMP 
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        1. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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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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        2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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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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        3. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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          Their traditions of Napoleonic code law and bureaucracies dating from royal times wasn't great either...

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