This presumes either a fungibility of passion, an arbitrariness of creative capacity, or both. It's easier to criticize people for being passionate about the "wrong" work than it is to energize them toward the "right" work, but they do not lead to the same outcomeshttps://twitter.com/irinimalliaraki/status/1166974150633762816 …
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With my example I wanted to highlight that certain future visions are detached from today's solvable problems that affect millions and might create a big tech divide which looks more like a dystopia. Everyone is free to work on what they feel is important
"Free to." "Everyone is free to." Are they? If not, why not? If there is some wide curdling in the shell, where is that coming from? Yes, we're all "free to." And yet we don't. Interesting.
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Do you have a hypothesis for where that’s coming from? I can’t tell if I’ve read this right, but are you arguing that people are disincentivised from working on the coolest things because of critiques that they might not be the most important things?
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I don’t share that hypothesis (if it’s even yours!) The lack of broadly distributed skills, social capital, & economic security are the massive obstacles to ‘everyone’ being ‘free to’ pursue larger goals. I think some of Eirini’s argument is “What if that was our utopia?”
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