Cory Doctorow Interview

How did we let this tool of empowerment turn into a tool of disempowerment?

If you can express yourself well to a computer, it will do exactly as you want
- This is empowering
  - and it is easy to use this empowerment to take away power from others
    - many people in silicon valley may be asking themselves "how did I let this joyful empowerment turn into a tool of disempowerment?"
Modern society believes in an ethical ledger where your ethical level is judged by tallying up your rights against wrongs
- this idea allows for a redemption
  - e.g. tech monolith CEOs can cancel out their bad by philanthropic good
- however, the good and bad you have done coexist
  - and so the harm cannot be cancelled out
    - the people you harm are still harmed
[[Literature allows an emotional experience of issues]]
[[Tech non-profit organisations are started because of both an excitement from tech and a fear]]
[[Science and tech often falsely see non-quantitative aspects as ignorable]]
[[Ad-blocking is the largest consumer revolt in history]]

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