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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Jan 2018
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      Thought that’s been lurking in my subconscious for a few months now. While there is merit to the “addictive social media UX” campaign/program of @tristanharris and others, there is also a danger that it might inadvertently trigger the digital equivalent to the war on drugs 1/2

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Jan 2018
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      Just because some deliberately pursue dark pattern addictive design doesn’t mean they’re solely or even primarily responsible. Vultures eat carrion. The enabling factor is alienation/isolation. Cf Cat Person. That will manifest *no matter how well-intentioned the design* 2/2

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    3. Nate Angell‏ @xolotl 1 Jan 2018
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      If I get what you’re saying, what would it look like to try to intervene closer to the root cause of alienation/isolation?

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Jan 2018
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      It’s isomorphic to both the inequality and automation-ate-my-job problems. So whatever it takes to solve those.

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    5. Nate Angell‏ @xolotl 1 Jan 2018
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      Is that Che I see coming over the horizon?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Jan 2018
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      No, history doesn’t repeat itself. At best it rhymes. Classical leftism is intellectually bankrupt for dealing with this go round. I actually think a round of religious movements will appear. That is a more robust response.

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    7. Nate Angell‏ @xolotl 1 Jan 2018
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      I wouldn’t be as quick to lay all the blame for what has and hasn’t worked on the left, tho it’s true it hasn’t come up with sufficient response to capitalism and imperialism. But moving on, does that mean the Enlightenment is over?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Jan 2018
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      The enlightenment ended with high modernism in the 1920s. We’re coming out of a ~100 year postmodern period, aka 100 years of not knowing wtf is going on. Otherwise we’d have come up with a better term for it than ‘postmodern’

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        2. Nate Angell‏ @xolotl 2 Jan 2018
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          Perhaps best described as “the time of the William Gibson novels”

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          The Gibsonian Age. Not convinced we’re coming out of it yet.

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