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That's very true - it's the point I address on the next line :-) > Increasingly advanced technology reduces the amount of effort, and to some extent, the prior
by davnicwil 11y ago
That's very true - it's the point I address on the next line :-)
> Increasingly advanced technology reduces the amount of effort, and to some extent, the prior knowledge about you required to do these things - but that doesn't automatically make them more likely to happen.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoI disagree that it doesn't automatically make them more likely to happen.
- davnicwil 11y agoReading this back, I didn't phrase this in the right way to get across my meaning. I'm totally not taking the extreme and naively idealistic position that ease of access won't make bad things more likely to happen. It will in almost all cases by some margin - I guess my real argument is that margin might be small enough that it's not really a big deal in practice. And this is definitely my 'optimist' argument. It's what I want to believe is true, and I think there's some rational justification for it, as I've discussed. However, sadly I can definitely see the opposite case as well, and totally accept that it's not only possible, it could be the more likely outcome.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoI want to believe that, too, but when Amazon is spending serious money on a one-press-to-order button - thus betting that ease of access will increase use - I'm pretty sure I don't want to argue the other direction :p