“The better first question was: Can this fake box make someone want a real one?” - i don’t know - my question is why are we making things we don’t care about beyond the possibility of capital?
…the pablo escobar lego set feels sooooo cynical…ai lego sets feels like the most stoned version of creativity…am i crazy or are we tchotcke scamming ourselves into believing this is progress instead of alteration?…
Thanks for the double take and grounding to reality CansaFis! I'd say many of the takes in tech seem very weird and uncomfortable early on and I like to lean on that discomfort a little - as long as it's not about hurting other people or other basic universal morals. (eg. Wozniak wanting giant hulking metal that calculated bomb trajectories shrunk into something that sat on a workbench in a garage could be viewed as tchotcke scamming (nice coining!)
“The better first question was: Can this fake box make someone want a real one?” - i don’t know - my question is why are we making things we don’t care about beyond the possibility of capital?
…the pablo escobar lego set feels sooooo cynical…ai lego sets feels like the most stoned version of creativity…am i crazy or are we tchotcke scamming ourselves into believing this is progress instead of alteration?…
Thanks for the double take and grounding to reality CansaFis! I'd say many of the takes in tech seem very weird and uncomfortable early on and I like to lean on that discomfort a little - as long as it's not about hurting other people or other basic universal morals. (eg. Wozniak wanting giant hulking metal that calculated bomb trajectories shrunk into something that sat on a workbench in a garage could be viewed as tchotcke scamming (nice coining!)