Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel

Co-creator of 1 small human. Developing capture/sharing technology for VR/AR as CTO on @MixCastMe. In utter dread of our ongoing environmental collapse.

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@TorranceCoste Yes though I wasn't positive where the page was so thanks for resurfacing it. Will try to digest the fundamental points more thoroughly for the call-in 👍

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@alexisohanian How can this policy be rectified with his goal of Twitter being the 'most accurate source of information on the Internet'? Information can be negative just as much as it can be positive, and suppressing one side clearly biases Twitter as a source.

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@Reaper3Tears @Victor_Lucas By what measure? Worse on the economy definitely

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@StrangeNative What did you use to film the first video with the user segmented in front of the heatmap?

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@StackhouseJohn Could RBC pull out some of the $9B you've invested in fossil fuels in the last year to help pay for the 40B they need to repair the flood damages?

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@kimpall @DennyCloudhead @hrafntho @JCorvinusVR @stevencmutter @technobaboo Light fields are definitely a possibility though I didn't think they were transmittable in realtime - their fully static Welcome to Lightfields scenes average 2GB each so wasn't expecting that they could push a version of that over a network at 30fps.

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@hrafntho @JCorvinusVR @stevencmutter @technobaboo @DennyCloudhead Yeah not says that the consumption side tech is ideal just that the point cloud streaming tech must be getting worked at Google

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@gekido The idea that Twitter would intentionally not make ads as targeted to unpaid users is wild. Is having ads shown to the 'wrong' people knowingly something advertisers are looking for?

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@tonycoxphoto Anyway just wanted to raise a less orthodox perspective on things for discussion's sake but understand Twitter won't be the place to make a strong case. Appreciate your points though and thanks for humoring my thesis

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@tonycoxphoto This being a theoretical goal more than a specific reality makes it hard but like I said, impartial discovery mechanisms like the channel guide on your TV for shows, Google's original pagerank for websites, the App Store (pre-ads obv) for apps were avenues to products without ads

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@tonycoxphoto I would return to your original tweet though and ask why you find the inclusion of ads in a successful product distasteful - from your argument aren't they beneficial to your shopping habit and helping businesses? Why wouldn't you want ads in your app store, web searches, etc?

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@tonycoxphoto Here's an article that touches on the subject. It doesn't really address the fact that companies with more capital are at more of an advantage but does get into much of the problem with the makeup of advertising today. https://t.co/5pSsEE8SqD

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@tonycoxphoto I understand that there are few remaining impartial discovery mechanisms (consumer reports, store shelves, etc) but from a philosophical perspective they're much healthier for a free market economy than advertising.

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@tonycoxphoto Which represents more perfect competition: a supermarket where a brand can pay to have their cereal in a custom display at the front with others in the back, or one where each brand get equal space on the shelf?
The latter produces choices based on merit; the former on capital.

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@JonVirtual @AntonHand's reason plus the culture-washing that museums and art galleries are doing for Oil & Gas companies by accepting large sums in return for brand presence. Note that Monet isn't alive & so isn't a target of any protests (nor are his works being damaged in the process)

[Ben 'Stop Climate Change' Sheftel @BlueprintBen]

@jsam10983741 @AnjaliApp A Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded recently (https://t.co/jEkpi8oJi4) for proving that Carbon taxes absolutely do work to disincentivize carbon emissions, which is the consensus of economists globally (https://t.co/43nlcJ40u7). Can you back up your statement?