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This article (and site) are pretty great, and helped shape a lot of my worldview. It tends to throw a bucket of cold water on a lot of the arguments regularly
by Jweb_Guru 4y ago
This article (and site) are pretty great, and helped shape a lot of my worldview. It tends to throw a bucket of cold water on a lot of the arguments regularly made on this website, though, so I'm surprised to see it here.
- epistasis 4y agoWhat sort of arguments do you see made on this website that this would refute?
- rimeice 4y agoPresumably that much of the tech industry and the way it’s funded is built on the assumption of boundless growth.
- epistasis 4y agoI don't think any tech funding is premised on boundless growth. It's usually a 20x-1000x factor of growth for a tiny part of the existing economy. This is important because the difference between boundless growth and a certain factor of growth is literally infinite, and has huge implications for reasoning about the future