They’re all avatars of nvidia which themselves
are avatar of TSMC and the silicon chip
manufacturing industry. There are underlying
technological current are driving cultural movement …
Oh no “Culture is downstream from technology”
that is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever heard
CULTURE IS DOWNSTREAM FROM TECHNOLOGY
I couldn’t find it, but there’s a moment where
spoiler
Cory Doctorow discusses how underlying technology
manufacturer end up controlling their downstream
consumer application of the technology in a
kind of “balance of power” of technology
I can’t find this passage at the moment,
I thought it was in the “war on general computing” speech,
but I can’t find it, I thought it was especially insightful
crypto bros == AI bros
always have been ruining shit for everyone else.
They’re all avatars of nvidia which themselves
are avatar of TSMC and the silicon chip
manufacturing industry. There are underlying
technological current are driving cultural movement …
Oh no “Culture is downstream from technology”
that is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever heard
CULTURE IS DOWNSTREAM FROM TECHNOLOGY
I couldn’t find it, but there’s a moment where
spoiler
Cory Doctorow discusses how underlying technology
manufacturer end up controlling their downstream
consumer application of the technology in a
kind of “balance of power” of technology
I can’t find this passage at the moment,
I thought it was in the “war on general computing” speech,
but I can’t find it, I thought it was especially insightful
In anycase there are the following links
DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die!
How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
and
28c3: The coming war on general computation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
And the unfortunate part is that crypto and LLMs are cool tech, but the bros completely ruin them.