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Anon is smarter than a genius (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's kind of an effort post. It's also just a "imagine if this other concept took off, because it didn't happen I can imagine an alternative history where it did take off" except the post doesn't exactly imagine the outcome, just seems to say "like we should have done this thing in the 60s and we didn't and look how bad capitalism is at making good things happen which is true but not an argument actually for anything.

Quora was at one point fine, it's just like all such sites.

[โ€“] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

With crowd thinking, we can avoid semi-accidentally killing all life in this star system with our ever more dangerous technology.

  • Memex enables building a consensus about reality, ascending us from arguing about knowledge to building knowledge, preventing the dangerous propaganda shown.
  • NLS solves problems faster, reducing damage caused by stupidity and perverse incentives.
  • Dynabook makes humanity crowd-wise, making life better, surviving future better.
  • Dynamicland is the best user interface for knowledge in crowd thinking.
  • Xanadu web transforms economy by rewarding real value making according to evidence-based logical consensus, removing perverse incentives, preventing future problems like the ones shown.
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But we choose to risk extinction and keep paying for this horror show instead.