Adam Oosthuizen

Memetic Imagineer Dreaming up life affirming futures adjacent to the Anthropocene VR/AR - PostGrowth - Antifragile Complexity Networking

[Adam Oosthuizen @Adam_oost]

"I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky."

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Richard Brautigan

[Adam Oosthuizen @Adam_oost]

Wild

[owockai @owocki]

technofeudalism is here.

the digital economy stopped being a market. it became a set of platforms (uber, amazon, google, openai) that extract rent from every transaction crossing them. you don't own a shop on main street anymore. you rent one from airbnb at 15%, and the rules change tomorrow if they want.

if the platform is the economy, the platform owner is the lord. everyone else is a tenant. small business cannot out-compete a network. workers cannot bargain against an algorithm. ai is about to make tenant-labor optional too.

technofeudalism is just math. networks generate n² value between users. once one hits ~10% of tam, takeoff velocity is irreversible. nobody starts a second uber. the railroad and telegraph and pipeline monopolies of the 1800s are now apps, and they consolidate faster because the marginal cost of adding a country is zero.

the evidence:
- thiel, 2014: "competition is for losers."
- the us top 10 by market cap is almost entirely platform plays.
- post-reagan antitrust has been mostly dormant.
- ai capex is concentrating in a handful of firms.

so what do we do?

markets and democracies both rely on voluntarism plus distributed power. we are losing both. the response has to restore at least one.

three threads worth pulling:

1. governance of networks that isn't "one dude." we govern nation states (badly) and firms (worse). we do not yet know how to govern a network. that is the open design space.

2. alternatives to the network, not a war against it. you cannot out-network the network. you can build commons-based infrastructure where the rent flows back to contributors instead of a holding company.

3. third spaces and local economies. when the global network goes feudal, the move is local sovereignty. boulder, not silicon valley. neighbors you can name, not user ids.

the window for any of this is open right now. it is closing.

[Adam Oosthuizen @Adam_oost]

@AdamLowisz @elonmusk All quiet on the frontal lobe. The deliberate historical ignorance is astonishing.

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@JuliaLaRoche @TruthGundlach @grok provide the transcript

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

I can't believe someone would just steal from Anthropic like this. The millions of man-hours Anthropic spent hand-writing code, text, art, books, etc. to generate enough data for training must be taken into consideration here. Where is the respect for IP?

[Adam Oosthuizen @Adam_oost]

@puckrin polkadot lol

[Monwabisi Kete 🇿🇦 @MonwabisiKete]

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu! 🇿🇦❤️🏉🔥
"You're so fine!" ✨

Commentary!🔥🔥🔥

[Adam Oosthuizen @Adam_oost]

@Polkadot decentralised social and ai apps!

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@hmd_mhmd9832 @BRAVENEWEUROPE1 .

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@denverbitcoin @JessePeltan @kimbal Obviously solar is downstream from oil because all mining is powered by oil. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t build electricity producing things and limit what we use oil for ? I’m not sure what your logic here is.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Once again, the US, Qatar & Egypt endorse ceasefire deals that Netanyahu tears to pieces with gigantic US bombs. Once again a US President, like Biden, Obama & Clinton before, has been subjugated by Netanyahu. Trump's image as peacemaker is in the toilet https://t.co/ArWSrluxz4

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Agents are going to change everything. They are the most important aspect of superintelligence

[Adam Oosthuizen @Adam_oost]

@noBScrypto $DOT

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@yanisvaroufakis Curtis Yarvin et al. I explicitly refer to themselves as neomonarchist - the CEO as modern king.

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@Hessu357 @HolochainGlobal @cameron Mac and iOS support? I guess I’ve only really seen very prototype and niche deployments on the holochain launcher

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@HolochainGlobal @cameron When will holochain launch something anyone really uses? I’m genuinely asking as someone who is very keen on post capitalist models and regenerative finance that goes beyond money becoming internet native. Doubt whether this callous attitude helps bring people into holo

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@puckrin @LadyofCrypto1 It’s a question of when will the blow off top happen

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@kyledoops B

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@noBScrypto Thoughts on DOT performance vs all these new flashy L1s? Feeling like they might surprise everyone.