OpenAI launched a free video tool. The result? A gas powered illumination and a hot new take on serfdom. All Sora 2 content was created while traveling through the Americas probably.
As initially imagined, it was a tool with utopian potential. Any potential utopian idea (open-source, socialism, blockchain/crypto, Burning Man) gets eaten from the inside by the drift of incentive. What was the dream is now the asset, and what was the community is now the market.
A large portion of humanity cannot emotionally tolerate a post-scarcity existence. Drive for status and power will inevitably cause asymmetry and then entropy quickly follows. It's more about finding the next moment of utopia and engaging with it because it's worth it, even in the face of inevitable decay.
Astute, yet again. Simultaneously somewhat scary, and alas, penny-pinchingly predictable.
To think, in the days of yore, I once thought the 'internet' was going to save the world.
As initially imagined, it was a tool with utopian potential. Any potential utopian idea (open-source, socialism, blockchain/crypto, Burning Man) gets eaten from the inside by the drift of incentive. What was the dream is now the asset, and what was the community is now the market.
A large portion of humanity cannot emotionally tolerate a post-scarcity existence. Drive for status and power will inevitably cause asymmetry and then entropy quickly follows. It's more about finding the next moment of utopia and engaging with it because it's worth it, even in the face of inevitable decay.