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Computers are a tool built to improve the lives of people. It does not make sense to consider them an end in-and-of-themselves.
by nightpool 5y ago
Computers are a tool built to improve the lives of people. It does not make sense to consider them an end in-and-of-themselves.
- nostrademons 5y agoSo is capitalism, and yet capitalism has seemingly taken over human behavior in a way that many people find is not an improvement, and yet are powerless to stop. Complex systems often exhibit complex emergent behavior. Humans are part of that system. Humans are not the only part of that system, and it makes sense that agents interacting at speeds millions of times greater than us might eventually come to dominate the system.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> capitalism has seemingly taken over human behavior in a way that many people find is not an improvement, and yet are powerless to stop. Lots of people banded together to rollback the degree to which capitalism dominanted life in the developed world, and were pretty successful at it over the last century.