🔮 Robots or jobs; crypto & the commons; power laws; peak screen, Fortnite & chocolate++ #172
Dept of the near future
💈 Martin Wolf: How should governments prepare for a future with significant labour displacement? This may require a more generous state providing public services, including subsidising work, but it might also mean a move towards techno-feudalism where the uber-wealthy access large amounts of servile cheap labour. (See also: Adair Turner’s excellent speech and supporting slides.)
💥 Joy Buolamwini echoes Sojourner Truth and asks: “AI, ain’t I a woman?”. STUNNING video exploring the ongoing algorithmic fails towards black women from the major computer vision systems provided by Google, IBM, Amazon et al. It’s been three years since we first discussed this issue in EV and it is disappointing that it persists.
🔑 Mike Maples on the idea that “Crypto-powered governance markets will solve the tragedy of the commons and drive future abundance”. THOUGHT PROVOKING
🎯 The American venture firm, Andreesen Horowitz has launched a dedicated “cryptofund”. The rationale behind …