[FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

[glen]

This is where Marcus' Musk-as-philosopher-king goes astray. It's on display clearly with the recent kerfuffle between Joe Rogan and Neal Young. Although Rogan gives lip service to skepticism, open-mindedness, etc. what his celebrity actually does is promote faith-based decision making, much the same way we think of other influencers (whether by their billionaire status or media reach or whatever) as forces of nature. They're definitely not forces of nature. They're successful con artists. That's what the "con" in "con artist" means ... misplaced confidence.



On 1/28/22 09:46, Steve Smith wrote:
> it IS my place to join Citizens of the (community, county, shire, state, nation-state, earth) to discuss and consider what could/should be treated as "the commons" and how therefore we manage them (or more relevantly, how we decide how to shape the landscape of forces that effectively manage/regulate/define them)...   emergent, collective phenomena ultimately dominate, no matter what the myriad stripes of linear conspiracy theorists may try to demonstrate.

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glen
Theorem 3. There exists a double master function.