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Reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation – or in the cant of crypto-valley evangelism, *democratisation, disruption* and *paying creators –* are also characteristics [identified by Langley](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2020.1766432) in *fintech* platforms (such as Swish, PayPal, cryptocurrency exchanges like CoinDesk, and a new breed of decentralised finance, or DeFi, powered by blockchains like Ethereum) designed to supposedly include the bottom of the pyramid while in reality they just profit from them.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
But with ACI, it would occur on an unprecedented scale: each agent with its own ability to consult, analyze, and communicate its perspective on the sum total of human knowledge. At lightning speed, this perspective gets checked by the perspective of a potentially unlimited number of other agents engaged in the same process. It is difficult not to see this as the AI breakthrough of the future.
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My purposes in beginning with this survey of history are (1) to show how deeply rooted in our past is the mentality of exploitation; (2) to show how fundamentally revolutionary it is; and (3) to show how crucial to our history – hence, to our own minds – is the question of how we will relate to our land.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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