A talk by Asim Hussain
Don't be an Idiot
The Topic
What if open source isn't a Silicon Valley invention, but the latest manifestation of ancient technology for diluting power? The same principles that created democracy in Athens around 500 BC drive modern open source & standards creation. As AI handles more tasks, the fundamentally human work that remains is governance, but we've forgotten how to make collective decisions. Your role isn't as a builder of something new, but as a guardian of something ancient.
This talk is optimistic but realistic - about human agency rather than human obsolescence. It's not another "AI will save/destroy us all" talk. And yes, it's all linked to psychedelics!
The Person
Dad bought a Sharp MZ-700 in the 1980s, got it cheap because Sharp had stopped manufacturing them. No games in stores, just a BASIC interpreter on tape, a programming manual, and one tape with 10 games. If I wanted more games, I had to learn to code them myself.
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