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economic design for the many worlds | @opencivics Labs | @theopenmachine

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@owocki .. anyways here is a link to my 3700 word google doc

[Open Machine @theopenmachine]

https://t.co/Br1J1UhEdS

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@AlchemyAmerican I would love to see you and perhaps @matthew_pines engage someone like @skdh or @seanmcarroll . Four good faith actors. (Leave @ericweinstein home for this one.)

[Open Machine @theopenmachine]

https://t.co/Br1J1UhEdS

[✧ Zoetica Ebb ✧ @zoetica]

2026 conference access links are up at https://t.co/GymYMCdKix along with the updated schedule. It has been a pleasure tending this garden over the past few months. Now let’s see what grows.

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@DanielleFong @jes5199 Just search something about racial IQ or dick extension or billionaire hot takes, it’s thriving

[Daniel Faggella @danfaggella]

80% of the responses to the pope's encyclical show a kind of "titration" towards an acceptance than man/life is a process, not a sacred/static thing

pple are questioning if humans are the moral locus, they are questioning the sentience of AI, etc

we're in orange territory:

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

A lot of people have suggested over the centuries that ecosystems might have some degree of cognition. What would that look like? Could there be recognizable memory phenomena on the scale of population dynamics? Here's a #preprint where amazing high-school student @asamanta42, @HananelHazan, and I use a model system - in silico predator-prey dynamics - and analyze the possibility of several kinds of learning:
https://t.co/JqmiakAJPM

(the basics are kind of like https://t.co/PH1ZKUxXqS, but some very cool new stuff here, including the interesting and unique pattern of learning-compatible values in the parameter space).

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@default_friend It seems to me that he is responsible for a horrific period of violence and psychological terror. Instigated the State-level adaptation of emanationism, the foundation of modern misogyny and white supremacy & the justification for the colonial project. I’m not a scholar tho so 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Open Machine @theopenmachine]

The point is to get out.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[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.

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@sodofi_ Ethereum is posthuman!

https://t.co/Onuhcr0ZtC

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@aidanbrodieo @owocki Racial IQ, great replacement theory, genetic determinism, white nationalism, Curtis Y@rvin, Nick L@nd, etc is trending among the tech elite. You could argue that it has nothing to do with their larger theory of technology & civilization. I think that would be a bad argument.

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I hope he’s reading Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman to study up

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

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@thinkingwest Strong believer that history looks much more like The Norseman or A Field in England (or, for that matter, Enter the Void) than any of the facile great man accounts we have. Cybernetic feedback across scales lived through the lens of diverse forms of immersion and intoxication

[Open Machine @theopenmachine]

@binji_x We’re in, because hardness without the metaphysical violence of institutional administration is the call of the day

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@binji_x @rudolf6_ Still in

[GOON MASTER SOPHONT SIMP @SOPHONTSIMP]

“Bugs are conscious and feel the whole gamut of feeling and emotion” is probably one of the horrifying things one could discover.

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