[model-15-DAV]

Out computer infrastructure today is anti-human, you see it in the examples given here in this blog post. Instead, we must start using computers and software in particular to create environmental computing infrastructure. Environmental computing infrastructure is not one of representation, not containing an interface, but a digital twin that handles the complex bureaucratic parts of our lives for us. It should not supplant us in meatspace, it should not exist in meatspace. This is what I want computers to do.

Much as the article describes, we are using contemporary computing technology to create infrastructure that allows us to live in the illusion of creating. The infrastructure is inherently cynical and consumption oriented, so it produces cynical consumers. A proper computing infrastructure, namely an environmental computing infrastructure, should produce producers.

[doug_durham]

This is a reductive interpretation. If I create a modify a photo using Photoshop I'm creating. If I use ChatGPT to help write some code for a hobby project, I'm creating. These are just tools for creating like all other tools that came before. I'm not quite sure what the moral panic is about.

[model-15-DAV]

Yeah, I am not against using tools of production. My problem is with ownership. You do not own the product you create with Photoshop[1], and you do not even own Photoshop anymore! It's all leases and terms of 'service' and no ownership of software.

Users of ChatGPT are serfs not owners. Their use of ChatGPT provides value to ChatGPT the corporation. Today we live in techno-feudalism[2], and not a time of tech ownership. So the serf gets wheat and cattle, the king stays in his castle.

I am against that these tools are actually tools of consumption. I am for software production ownership.

[1]: https://hothardware.com/news/adobe-responds-to-creator-outra... [2]: Yannis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, coined the term.

[kkfx]

Anti-human is software not in control of it's human user. So an "environmental computing infrastructure" is anti-human.

A classic desktop model, where the OS is a single application, user-programmable with ease like modern Emacs or classic Smalltalk workstations, of course networked with other systems offering the same kind of interaction, so a kind of "environmental computing" but personal that's pro-human. Because you are not slave of someone else created automation with more or less limited personalization, you are the owner, the commander of anything belonging to you.

[model-15-DAV]

Yes I agree. I think that my main issue is that with today's software, we are assuming the identity of our 'digital twin', instead of having it firmly separated from us. This is my main problem with representational aspect of our current software infrastructure. It actually removes ownership and control over the software.