while the concern for privacy is real, I think most of us have it backwards. we already have almost zero expectation of privacy, along with near zero agency, autonomy, self-ownership. our relationship with content on the internet is all backwards, because the pipes that carry everything to everyone are owned and controlled by big entities, backed with the threat and reality of an all consuming force. we don't have the freedom we imagine we do. but AI, if open source and running on open hardware, can, maybe, empower even the most minimally online of us to change that. It's a power imbalance right to the root of every corner of society that needs to be upended through economic decentralization

content itself isn't a natural fit for being locked down and controlled. Information wants to be free. the power of the content we share is in what it communicates, unlocks, and even sells for us. that's why web3 is so interesting to me. minting and selling an NFT isn't just flipping a JPEG. it's communicating something, combined with an encrypted, unalterable record of what was communicated a unique coordinate in timespace and topicspace. a cultural asset that can serve as device and key to anything else it's programmed to do. that's the promise of it, anyway

the images, videos, music, messages, etc we create serve all the other goods we make and sell, empowering us to buy and build the trade infrastructure we rely on. it's a way to impose our privacy on the market, and to make wealth for ourselves independent from any platform lock in