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"ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL" "AUTOMATION IS DEADLY" ... wait, what?
by luspr 7y ago
"ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL"
"AUTOMATION IS DEADLY"
... wait, what?
- ErikAugust 7y agoSecond one: A machine gun comes to mind. Of course, I am not sure these are truisms.
- iron0013 7y agoThe title of the work (or rather the title of her entire oeuvre in this style) is “Truisms”, but I don’t think that means they’re necessarily intended to literally be truisms. There’s a lot of humor and irony involved.
- platz 7y agoANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL if you're operating efficiently, and generate or take only what you need, you aren't generating surplus. surplus could be read as greed, decadence, or even waste AUTOMATION IS DEADLY do it yourself, retain the know-how yourself. self-sufficience. don't rely on externalities. natural processes are more, well, natural. machines tend to exploit and create imbalance.
- tgv 7y ago> surplus could be read as greed, decadence, or even waste Or as a buffer. E.g., who knew that overcapacity in a hospital could be beneficial? So once more, the veracity of such statements depends on the context.
- platz 7y agoYour statement is 100% correct but misses the entire point https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854475
- dvh 7y agoALL HAIL THE DARK LORD OF THE TWIN MOONS
- pdonis 7y agoThe contradiction I saw with "ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL" was: "KEEP SOMETHING IN RESERVE FOR EMERGENCIES" Where does the something you keep in reserve come from?
- gowld 7y agoEnjoy: www.jajlouny.com/contradictory-epigrams