Monday, January 26, 2004
I am on about my 9th lost post here... I remember when I used to have save things 3 times, on 3 different tapes, on the CBM PET in order to be absolutely sure that a few hundred bytes were REALLY saved... 25 years later, things are worse. I have had it with blogger right now. I am moving off to my own site in about a week.
Before I give up here's a bit that I was trying to comment on from MichaelA Cooper
I was writing the other day about this. I discovered something (watching firefly, actually) about myself that really rang true.
As a coder, as a computer guy for those stinking 25 years - I have been in the sorry position of a prostitute that loved sex.
"Would you do that for 200 dollars?"
YESS!
"Would you do that for 150 dollars?"
YESS!
"Would you do that for 75 dollars?"
YESS!
"Would you do it for free?"
YESS!
"Would you do it for stock options?"
YESS!
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Before I give up here's a bit that I was trying to comment on from MichaelA Cooper
- So, then, what happens when in the Being-John-Malkovich future we can actually have other people's experiences? Have, for instance, artists' coming-up-with-art experiences? Does that mean that the Art will eventually just drop out? Eliminate the middleman, so to speak?
Suppose I had hour-long extended orgasms and others could share them. Would they? Would it be like open source software—everybody shares and adds improvements along the way?
[Think about what the fact of open source software seems to mean for capitalism. Isn't it the case that groups of people will always work for free to provide things that others charge for, exactly because they believe the others shouldn't be making sleazy profits from things that nice people could just get together and make for free?]
I was writing the other day about this. I discovered something (watching firefly, actually) about myself that really rang true.
As a coder, as a computer guy for those stinking 25 years - I have been in the sorry position of a prostitute that loved sex.
"Would you do that for 200 dollars?"
YESS!
"Would you do that for 150 dollars?"
YESS!
"Would you do that for 75 dollars?"
YESS!
"Would you do it for free?"
YESS!
"Would you do it for stock options?"
YESS!
- What's sobering to realize is that, in a future where you could share the inner experience of anyone you wanted, the vast majority of people in the world would want to have the inner experience of someone very, very different from me—probably somebody I don't even like very much. (Of course, my take would then be, Hey, baby, how do you know if you haven't had the experience? Huh?)
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