Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
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Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
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Re: Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
#2> Google will kill Facebook or vice versa.
That's where I stopped reading. How silly to think either of those two terrible outcomes would ever come to fruition.
Re: Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
#3Jaron is very good at articulating his ideas. He is preaching to the choir with me though. I was somewhat addicted to Twitter, but snapped out of it 7 years ago, and find the idea of using one of those networks tiresome.
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#4> Google will kill Facebook or vice versa. That's where I stopped reading. How silly to think either of those two terrible outcomes would ever come to fruition.
I don't know, nothing lasts forever, and one might 'die' at the hand of the other. It could easily happen through acquisition as he says.
Re: Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
#5Another great article which makes a more balanced argument:
https://quillette.com/2018/04/17/social-media-case-deactivat...
Re: Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
#6Jaron Lanier is interesting in the same way the RMS is interesting. You don't have to subscribe to all of their views to get something useful out of reading their output. RMS is the better prophet.
Re: Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
#7The thing I keep thinking is that I want to have social software built on a co-operative model (like a food co-op): you all pay some nominal membership fee (could you fund servers and developers on $5/year/user?), and the software would then be developed to fit the agreed-upon needs of the community, without dark patterns or behavior modification projects, openly, and with some kind of community governance (which need not be exclusive of technical leadership).
Obviously this would probably never get the global reach of a no-fee Facebook, but I would use something like this in a second, many of my friends would too, and I sometimes daydream about what I would need to do to get it off the ground.
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#8I saw an absolutely epic debate between Jaron and a Singulatarian. He totally called them out on being religious in that they were just trying to make a geek version of the Christian rapture. I agree that the guy is like RMS in that he is an original thinker who works from first principles and that tends to give him an understanding that is unique and worth listening to.
BTW, Speaking of RMS and Jaron, is there some requirement that you have to have an iconic hair style to be a revered tech commentator?
Re: Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
#9The thing I keep thinking is that I want to have social software built on a co-operative model (like a food co-op): you all pay some nominal membership fee (could you fund servers and developers on $5/year/user?), and the software would then be developed to fit the agreed-upon needs of the community, without dark patterns or behavior modification projects, openly, and with some kind of community governance (which nee…
My thought about the article is that basically the author has gotten too negative. He is so distracted with attacking the ad-supported social software we have that he gave up thinking about the software we need.
Re: Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
#10The thing I keep thinking is that I want to have social software built on a co-operative model (like a food co-op): you all pay some nominal membership fee (could you fund servers and developers on $5/year/user?), and the software would then be developed to fit the agreed-upon needs of the community, without dark patterns or behavior modification projects, openly, and with some kind of community governance (which nee…
My thought about the article is that basically the author has gotten too negative. He is so distracted with attacking the ad-supported social software we have that he gave up thinking about the software we need.
We don't need software to socialize.
Some tasks of our life can be taken over by software, but others should stay with us.
Especially with the advent of AI, engineers are racing to automate everything: from suggesting us new friends, new music, with which dresses we look smart, and so on. Automating everything will cause the atrophying of our skills and we will become a bunch of lonely depressed, smartly dressed users with thousands of virtual friends and perfect music playlists that never deviate from our preferred music.
Automation is fine and dandy, but not for everything.