Not sticking to things is bad news for Spiderman.

So Republicans then.

The accelerationists do tend to have quite an overlap with various flavours of authoritarianism. One has to wonder about their motives.

Biases in Algocracy are the result of poor design.

You can’t design a neutral algorithm. The algorithm has to be designed to optimize something. What that thing is is a political and philosophical decision. Government by algorithm is indirect government by whoever’s values shaped the design of the algorithm.

Algorithms can no doubt assist in regulating systems but they don’t resolve any of the deeper political issues about values, goals and what constitutes improvement.

Of course, tech bros will claim they can sell you a neutral algorithm that will run things better than people, but that’s just because tech bros’ political philosophy is basically “just do it my way because obviously I’m smarter than you.” They won’t even notice how their algorithms are biased, because they’re not even interested in that question.

“Communism won’t work because I only work for selfish gain so everyone else must be the same as me. Anyone who says they’d work for non-selfish reasons must be lying because I’m selfish and everyone else must be just like me. And if they set up a society where selfishness wasn’t the main motivator, I’d be out of there to go where I could still be selfish. Therefore communism is bullshit.”

Communist societies have had their problems but this has never been a good argument.

You guys don’t pay for your memes? Damn.

The players aren’t rich either, nor most of the singers.

Except when the top half of the World Trade Center just stays hanging in the air.