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ulyssessword
22d ago
"More Communication" is sometimes code for something one level deeper.
- The product has to match the end-user's use cases.
- The project has to use land in a non-disruptive way
- The limitations have to be understood and planned around (by those impacted, not the creators)
But it can also be used as an object-level good:
- Evidence of consent has to be gathered
- Blame has to be shifted
- People have to be pacified
There's a huge gap between more communication as a means of creating/spreading knowledge and more communication as an end in itself. The phrase "More Communication" is almost always code for the latter in my experience.
ulyssessword
22d ago
I’ve also detested those academics who say things like “if you can’t explain it in 5 seconds to a 5 year old, you don’t understand it.” Homie. There are concepts I haven’t been able to understand for my entire life. Same for you.
If you feel like being mean, ask them: "How long did your education take? That long, huh. Did your professors not understand the material, or are you worse at understanding things than a five-year-old?"
At best, a 5-second summary is a label that well-rounded individuals can use to find what you're talking about. At worse, it's a semantic stopsign that gets them to stop asking questions and fake understanding. It doesn't have enough information to explain anything with any complexity.
ulyssessword
26d ago
if someone tried to abuse this system, the town charter would get amended pretty quickly.
Before, or after that abuse let them illegitimately affect the system?
ulyssessword
29d ago
Will it ever replace all workers? No. By the nature of economics, that's basically impossible. People's desires are infinite and there arent infinite resources and labor, so there are always niches to fill.
Minimum wage and related barriers put a finger on the scale though. Currently, very-low-skilled people are unemployable because the assorted costs of hiring them outweigh the expected benefits. In the future, will that extend to moderate skill levels? high? I don't think it'll cut off 100% of people before extinction and/or post-scarcity, but I could see the labor force dropping from about 50% of all people today to 10-20% even if AI remains a normal technology.
Why is domestic violence a "category" of crime, instead of simply being rolled into the non-specific whole? You don't see people talking about near-fire-hydrant crime, after all.
I think it's categorized separately because it's different. And because it's different, it might not make for a good basis for comparisons.
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