Emmett Shear (twitch founder, Open AI interim CEO for a couple of days) gets into it with Devon Ericksen (random sci fi author). Emmett was pontificating about putting in a 50-100% death tax for better societal equality and Ericksen eloquently puts him in his place...
One excerpt:
"The problem isn't Emmett in particular. It's the entire culture he comes from.
Autism adjacent techie nerds who managed to make millions or billions off a website without ever seeing Middle America or what's happening there are confused.
They start to move in elite circles, get lots of attention online, and they start to think about how society should be ordered to maximize some sort of vague goodity-ness. And then their brain just treats this problem like coding a website for streaming video games.
You make up a really smart plan, and write the code, and all the little components execute the code, and some new feature is added, increasing the amount goodity-ness in the world. Yay!
But societies aren't made of components waiting for instructions. They are made of people, who have their own goals and needs. "
One excerpt:
"The problem isn't Emmett in particular. It's the entire culture he comes from.
Autism adjacent techie nerds who managed to make millions or billions off a website without ever seeing Middle America or what's happening there are confused.
They start to move in elite circles, get lots of attention online, and they start to think about how society should be ordered to maximize some sort of vague goodity-ness. And then their brain just treats this problem like coding a website for streaming video games.
You make up a really smart plan, and write the code, and all the little components execute the code, and some new feature is added, increasing the amount goodity-ness in the world. Yay!
But societies aren't made of components waiting for instructions. They are made of people, who have their own goals and needs. "
