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The people on both ends of that conversation (google vs cornell) are clever but the result will probably be enshittification.
by kadushka 2y ago
The people on both ends of that conversation (google vs cornell) are clever but the result will probably be enshittification.
- keepamovin 2y agoImpossible to argue with HN's regression to entropy cynicism hehehe :)
- jeffbee 2y agoI'm torn on flagging comments that throw out "enshittification". Do you feel that this stands in for actual thought?
- kadushka 2y ago[flagged]
- Analemma_ 2y agoI'm going to fling that response right back at you. "Enshittification" is not a generic term for "update I don't like", it describes a specific dynamic that happens when a company inserts itself as a middleman into a two-sided market. arXiv could get worse in other ways, but enshittification in particular can't happen to it, that's a category error. I think you should offer better thoughts instead of mad-libbing in buzzwords where they don't apply. Enshittification is actually a useful concept, and I don't want it to go the way of "FUD", which had a similar trajectory in the later years of Slashdot where people just reduced it to a useless catch-all phrase whenever Microsoft said anything about anything.
- kadushka 2y agoI'm using "enshittification" as defined here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/enshittification https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/enshittification I believe there's a real chance of it happening here as a result of this transition. I personally experienced results of several of similar transitions over the course of my career. What I haven't experienced are problems with Arxiv that would motivate such a change. There might be actual problems they are trying to solve - but I still believe things will probably get worse as a result.
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