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I think this is great, but it has a serious issue: none of these topics are particularly focused on sustainability. It's hard to see what is going to come out of this type of approach in the medium future, even if the short future looks great. render.betaworks.com/introducing-betalab-lets-fix-things-6a65806a2201
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Creating another generation of tech companies w/no clear path to sustainable operation will push them towards the same bad anti-privacy behavior the last gen did. The greatest threat to the security of the web & people on it is the dearth of clear non-invasive ways to make money.
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I too would like to live in a world where capitalism-as-we-know-it is an artifact of the past. But that world isn't a reality & if we don't develop, in concert w/ these other things, ways for these tools & platforms to make money they'll end up in the same hole as the FBs & Ubers
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Which is to say: when web companies of the future don't have a clear path to sustainability they will fall back on the same strategies that the last generation of web companies did: they'll start selling user data in one form or the other. And that way leads to dark patterns.
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VC and grant funding structures as they currently are create a perfect storm for this, the mentality is to develop scale of users and quality of product and not worry about the money making side until the other two questions are best answered.
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Then when we get to that question of how these companies make money beyond investor storytime, it's the same old approach: user data. B/c something needs to be done fast & the money is running out. That's where the structures that support bad behavior on the web come from.
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Inhumane technology, weaponized social media, "fake news" these things didn't come out of ill intent. They came because we created idealized tools, didn't plan on how they could be used negatively & then people just threw ad tech up on to these systems & incentivized bad behavior
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There won't be a generation of safe web technology unless we start from minute one of development to think about how that technology will make money, sustain itself, and do so conscious of user privacy and expectations.
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At the end of the day the core problem of the web in 2020 isn't bad technology, it's bad monetary incentives. There's no way to out-engineer capitalism, so either your tool is made to tear down the bourgeoisie or it needs to be part of a solution set around making money ethically
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The first and most important question to answer is: how do you create a generation of web tools, social platforms, and technology that are inherently inimical to being a N*zi *as a profitable living*. Because, and I want to emphasize this, _it is still an unanswered question_.
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Because at the end of the day, no other question matters more than that. In our system results follow profitability and so the core problem is that we're 6 years out from G*am*rG*te and people are still making a living *by* harassing women, being Nazis & denying climate change.
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Like... it isn't just people writing fake news, it's about people making a *profit* by writing, recording or filming fake news. It isn't just about users not being able to have private interactions on the web, it is about users lack of privacy being very profitable.
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I know it isn't very exciting, but the problems we need to solve aren't better AIs. They're problems of better and more ethical ways to make a profit. The web won't be better until it is more profitable to be a good human and ruinous to be an evil one.
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I mean, it is either that or tear down capitalism all together and remove money motive from our lives. I'm ok with getting us to the United Federation of Planets a bit early.
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Because this technoutopia that keeps being promised to me seems to always end up as some variant of indentured drivers in surveillance machines selling me "personalized" ads for Prag*rU.
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If you're building a tech product and you are leaving the way to make money with it ethically as a question for later... you are failing to build a product properly.
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