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> Computers aren't really giving us too many benefits. I suspect if we were any good at accounting for this stuff, we’d find that 95% of applications of comput
by vundercind 3y ago
> Computers aren't really giving us too many benefits.
I suspect if we were any good at accounting for this stuff, we’d find that 95% of applications of computers have a 0.1x-1.1x multiplier on whatever we’re applying them to, once you factor in the extra costs, but the other 5% is like 5x-500x.
Beneficial overall and yet harmful a majority of the time one encounters it.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoIndeed, that highlights a very interesting paradox. Computers are immensely useful in certain sorts of tasks, but in others they are rather obstructive even though the integration of them in our lives makes them necessary when they ought not to be.