Last week, Jesse Armstrong, the British director behind Succession, released his first feature-length film – a thinly veiled satire about the tech oligarchs who dominate our lives and, increasingly, have a say over what constitutes free speech.
Though it would be easy to write off Mountainhead as pure fiction, to anyone who has spent time around these people, as I have, it was eerily准确。
Elon Musk is inescapable in tech.Credit: AP
The four fictional billionaires are flush with obscene wealth accumulated in the technological miracle of the past two decades.他们乘坐各自的私人喷气式喷气式飞机后,他们向偏远的豪宅进行了扑克,并在“友好”的狗屎谈话,在胸口上写下净值,计划政变并观看世界各地的大规模暴力,这要归功于该角色的一个应用程序之一(可能是对Facebook的内容的敬意(最终促进了脚本的脚本,y/pernoyr in Myanmar in Myanmar in Myanmar of Myanmar)
Though the world mostly thinks of Silicon Valley as some kind of liberal bastion, at its core, it is libertarian (even the film’s title is a nod to “the godmother of American libertarianism”,艾恩·兰德)。 When I lived in San Francisco, where I was working for the Biden-Harris administration and the Democratic National Convention, I quickly realised that the prevailing attitude is that governments and regulations are pesky and burdensome – that they only serve to obstruct technological progress they’re too small-minded to understand.
LoadingWorking among and moving in the same social circles as senior tech executives and some of today’s best known billionaires, you’d see just how他们很奇怪。他们会吹嘘在办公室里睡觉,或者要求员工错过重要的家庭活动。我曾经看过一位科技亿万富翁的儿子要求美国高级政府官员记录一段视频,要求一个女孩为他出去。
2022年,当自动驾驶出租车开始出现在旧金山的街道上时,大型技术自大与政府程序之间的这种对抗大声而清晰。制作出租车的企业在推出车辆之前未能通知当地官员,并且只部分将其数据发布给监管机构。
当一家科技公司的机队因安全方面而被带走时,其他科技公司则将其他科技公司完全摆脱人类的出租车司机。当然,无人驾驶出租车的聊天率不那么尴尬,但是对于具有深远影响的技术,绕着没有人类的车辆行驶的技术,透明的监督不可否认。
“ ctzll”>广告 partssign pactercement plact class class =“ kylbs” kylbs“ kylbs” dogation-bott- weem-ey-bott-et py native-bott in tagity-botts <202链条通过美国政府机构,并利用政府权力挑选赢家技术行业的SERS,而Peter Thiel的科技公司Palantir的任务是构建一个数据库,该数据库可以使用个人政府数据(包括健康记录,银行帐户号,学生债务和残疾状况)来跟踪美国的每个人。在唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统的领导下,这可能会成为监视政治对手和移民的拖网。这是一种数据监视,它将使乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell)在坟墓中滚动。幸运的。这是我们经常错过的观点。就像火箭舰队和杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)正在将资金铲入另一个星球上一样,技术权利的优先级和推动的技术并非旨在拯救我们 - 旨在拯救他们。
,因为在这些人的勇敢之下,这是对死亡的恐惧。在他们的脑海中,死亡应仅为穷人保留。这种恐惧推动了他们对权力和永生的不懈追求。在 Mountainhead 中,史蒂夫·卡雷尔(Steve Carell)的角色因无法治愈他的晚期癌症而对专家进行审判。 In real life, it’s Mark Zuckerberg’s martial arts obsession, Jack Dorsey only eating one meal per day on weekdays, and fasting all weekend to enhance his “mental clarity”, and Steve Jobs’ “fruitarian” diet of raw fruit, nuts and seeds only.
It’s a stark reminder that these Silicon Valley titans see themselves as modern-day gods wielding code and capital to reshape reality itself.更糟糕的是,它提醒我们,无论我们如何看待他们或我们的生活如何被他们的创新塑造多么深刻 - 积极和负面 - 他们只将我们视为银行中的数字。
cory alpert是墨尔本大学的博士研究员,他们是梅尔伯恩大学的博士研究员,他们着眼于AI对民主的影响。他以前曾在拜登·哈里斯(Biden-Harris)政府任职。
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