Jaron Lanier on Digital Life 

Jaron Lanier is one of the most brilliant thinkers alive. Nobody can think about the big-picture the way this guy can. Forget any economist, philosopher, or technologist you know. He is all of those things at once and can no doubt see a bigger piece of the puzzle than they can. He is a huge inspiration of mine

this guy lives in the DMT world that exists post-singularity...he visits our world once in a while to give talks and play his music.

Wonderful, eye opening presentation. What a brilliant guy

Jaron is of the old guard. Perhaps, that's why he's so human, expressive and able to look at things from outside the bubble. I've been working in the software industry for 24 years and his kind is (most) unfortunately, becoming extinct in the tech industry.

Jaron is very bright and articulate.

Thank you for uploading such speeches ! Cultivating worldview

People, with their gifts of original thinking and unique perspectives, should be earning MONEY from the world's Facebooks. Larnier talks about this in the lecture. Our self- value is economically reduced by those who take advantage of the means that can utilize our Hidden value for their own profit. For example, RU-vid knows what you are interested in, and there are market forces willing to buy that information. Larnier suggests a cooperative solution, rather than vampyric one. Jaron rocks

No women in the audience? and no questions? I would've had them.......Lanier; I met him when he was a MIDWIFE! In person....in 1978. He had a 'presence' that superseded all but the most important speakers there. Back then Lanier was not doing anything significant with computers; he possessed something special. I frequently recall that moment. I only have been made aware of Lanier currently within the past few months. What a genius.

This need more views

I was just thinking the same. The questioners are just trying to reassure themselves that their computerize they possess, and whatever they're working on is just great......Listening I felt like I did when I went to a Buckminster Fuller lecture. The science and math students just didn't get the genius. No one has even commented on Lanier's musicality; those gorgeous instruments and what they represent of us all collectively. Tant Pis.

this guy's awsome

Having people scream "OUD!" at a stage brought me right back to Bill Bailey's Dandelion Mind.

I agree with him on some elements - I would say open source software would be outside of his theory

At present we don't know what can't be automated.

And seven years later, the thumbnail remained, uncorrected. (Originally uncircumcised, thank you swipe text)

History of fashion 101 :D, that was a good one :)

It's as if Jared goes into a trance when he's playing instruments.

When I hear the phrase "dumbing down of media" I think of people misinterpreting what this man has to say in ways he would freely admit networks of supercomputers would consistently fail to predict.

It's a compelling argument but here in 2021 eight years later the pandemic he as taught us labour is not going away . Automation has not made us a society free of manual Labour shelf stackers and the supply chain workers had to keep working while professional classes of management stayed at home doing fuck all. Manual labour is still required and the economy is struggling to find it. The promise of automated driving seems extremely premature now ..

I was listening on a Playlist doing some crafting and when I heard "jaron" I was shocked there has to only be maybe 5 people ever whose name is a variation of "jaron" one of my little brothers is named "jaran" my mother says it's some desert out of a science fiction book series she likes. I think it's awesome to find someone named the same as you when one has a very unique name I fit this rare name demographic too another thing is the phenomenon that most likely when you find another person with the same unique name it will be spelled different anywho I also enjoyed jarons type of art. Prehapse the frequency of the music from odd instruments or the ability to play them opens or stims a specific more "socially aware" part of the brain 🤔

Respect cannot be automated.

JL doesn't strike me as the button up type.

That'd be great.. A law about not tracking without an agreement.

Karl Marx never suggested machines would replace workers to the absolute, he kept claiming that value only generates out of labor. Machines will displace workers, granted they can deliver more work than the cost of workers (higher wages inspires innovation). But Karl Marx said machinery cant create value, only surplus value in so far the machinery is better than your competition, in effect creating ie shoes cheaper than others, giving you a better profit margin. Ok thats it.

"...there's no free lunch..."~●~

automation becomes very good in about 20 yrs.

Lanier is rigorously ANTI-singularity. He is as rational as they come. I highly recommend You Are Not A Gadget for anyone who is spooked by this Singularity nonsense.

My comments are being posted chronologically instead of being specific replies to other peoples posts, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY! Replies, in reverse,are to Limbshifter, Bobby Thomas, Bill Wilkie, and Mr. Forrest Explorer. Why doesn't pressing "Reply" mean being posted under that which one is replying to? Does that mess with temporal market research ;) ?

Hopefully a light bulb moment for the cyberneticist. I couldn't be sure if the look on his face was a refusal to believe, or a look of horror in the truth being actually worse than zero sum.

I thought the interviewer was wearing moon boots, in which case i thought he was taking a page from Napoleon dynamites book. Just missing the vest. You guys are doing amazing work here. I feel everybody should be exposed to these videos.

@52:01 Looks like he is playing a pair of chop sticks LOL Please don't get me wrong: I respect this man's genius and talent immensely.

16:30

Is that guy a young David Walliams ?

This channel is at 5.72 mil. How does this only have 12000 views?

Digitally brought to you.....

what if it is the mama matrix just coming back to cleanse the slate

and smoking

THE LIGHT FILLS HIM AND WE BECOME HI.

"oldest free thinking places in the world" lol ok england sit down.

You mean straight-jackets and nooses? History of fashion 101. {;)}

Socialism: workers owning the fruits of their labor. Sovjet: state capitalistic system where they owned their population. Ok, I can see why socialism failed in Sovjet :p

I want money for this comment!

Tom Bombadil is fucking real!!! :D and smart XD

Market forces as a panacea. Sounds good, too good. Too easy. Where's the catch? Implementation.

A bunch of blurb not really meaningful.

so many thinks to argue with: - a resource on internet that keeps track of links to it? this is an anti-pattern. it just doesn’t work … for larger than really small network - musicians do not earn enough to make a living: did no one tell them it will be so at least thousand times? actually discouraging kids from choosing artistic career has thousand years long tradition, i suppose ... - collecting data from user is demonetised? users get ('free') service in exchange for their data. this is standard trade. by the way: collective efforts and achievements in teaching machines (here i mean mainly language translation and various image recognition tasks) will pay off even on an individual level magnitudes more than what individual people loose by loosing a job. - new technologies can damage economy and environment? yes! it happens all the time. and it's terrible. invention of blacksmith together with construction lead to destroying forests in all inhabited land. somebody calls 2008 a financial crisis? compared to both world wars which were also to great measure caused by artificial financial crisis, 2008 was a small hiccup. instead of blaming technologies for crisis I would praise resilience of globalised economy that runs on advanced technologies. - not making copy … this is just nonsense. making copies and mutating them is inherent feature of how life works and off course how software works. storing copies of data locally makes many services possible, otherwise simple click on a button would take ages to process. does he not now this? when was the last time he wrote a piece of software? - and about normal distribution vs. long tail distribution: long tail graph signals a transition to new resources. yes, there is a small minority that discovered these new resources and they gain wealth and power ahead of others. but when eventually things will stabilise, distribution of wealth will 'normalise' and will get the shape of 'normal' distribution. that's why it is called normal. we are living in times of shifting paradigms, changing life styles and we face great challenges, for example 'how not to eat whole planet while not to beat each other with bicycle chain at the same time'.

Don't tuck your jeans into your boots...

Jaron Lainer? haha