Not explicitly Solarpunk, but has all the right components to belong here. The location is about 2 hours north of San Francisco.
but has all the right components to belong here.
Like AI shilling, cryptocurrency scams and trying to associate themselves with multi-millionaires?
The entire concept also has a strong “network states” smell to it (a right wing libertarian and anti-democratic idea).
I don’t see crypto anywhere on the topics, I’m extremely anti crypto. My understanding is AI aspect is: what can we do about AI. E.g. AI here to stay, how is it going to effect the world. I’m not a fan of LLM’s, hyperscaling, and slop. My background is in understanding biological intelligence (studying animal connectomics and reproducing biologically plausible behaviors). Which is technically under the umbrella of AI.
You’re welcome to be critical, I’m not an expert on the event, but it was sent to me by a friend who I know has good intentions. I certainly haven’t see anything indicating antidemocratic ideas.
Cryptocurrencies are mentioned quite a lot on the website if you browse a bit and also the endorsement by the creator of Etherium is very prominent.
Might be just a case of being California tech bubble brainwashed, but even with good intentions this is showing a disturbing lack of critical thinking about some of these things.
A technic driven gathering from techbros for the upper well educated class? Not so solarpunk for me.
