Yes this is the dumb climate denier econ guy who was popular in the days before the Erdtree.

Nope he's an odd Transhumanist associated with Bostrom et al so, more a dumb eugenics guy.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    The means of art production in the hands of the people: data centers with millions of $ of GPUs and other hardware with AI algorithms trained on billions of $ of data.

    The means of art production which were previously off limits to all the plebs: a pencil and paper.

    Thank you for your insights, brain genius.

  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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    4 months ago

    art production

    fuck you. Stop treating art as a commodity to be bought and sold

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Nearly every modern art movement was created by the common people. Graffiti, Jazz, blues rock, punk, funk, various books including liberals favourite, Harry Potter and so much more

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      The only one I can think of that had not just ruling class patrons but largely ruling class performers is Early Ballet.

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Impressive to infer the exact opposite of what is happening to the means of production to something you don’t like in order to call it communism. Gotta respect this level of mental gymnastics.

  • Alisu [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Bro, i can get a pencil and paper and literally produce art, wtf is he on about