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eschatology

Turing's humor also provides a destination, or an eschatology that the Invisible Hand's humor lacks. Turing's algorithms could inherit the world in a way that the Hand could not.

—p.128 Third Interlude: Modernity Conceives the Future (123) by Jaron Lanier
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accounting fraud in a humanistic information economy

[...] self-driving cars will depend on cloud data about streets, pedestrians, and everything else that can affect a trip. That information will be renewed constantly, with every single ride. Will the rider be compensated beyond a free ride for helping to generate this information? To do otherwise w…

—p.92 From Below: Mass Unemployment Events (85) by Jaron Lanier
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the only way back to a truer form of capitalism archive/dissertation

[...] Undoing the Siren Server pattern is the only way back to a truer form of capitalism.

—p.78 Some Pioneering Siren Servers (69) by Jaron Lanier
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lower prices vs lowered job prospects

It's certainly reasonable to expect that making economic activities more efficient ought to increase opportunity for everyone in the longer term. However, you can't really compare the two sides of the equation, of lower prices and lowered job prospects.

This is so obviously the case that it seem…

—p.73 Some Pioneering Siren Servers (69) by Jaron Lanier