hodlbod on Nostr: Read Tools For Convivialityby Ivan Illich. The effect of a tool is determined by its ...

Read Tools For Convivialityby Ivan Illich. The effect of a tool is determined by its scale and ecology. If only two businesses were allowed to mnufacture shovels that would be centralizing too. Thechallenge is in making this technology, which exists and can't not exist, into a convivial tool (manifested at a scale healthy for humanity). The other side (making them useful) depends on mitigati g all the weird externalities that come from having a "thinking" machine (skill atrophy, AI psychosis, etc etc).