At first i didn’t believe it when my coworker told me “lots of businesses have a natural lifetime of 20 years. After that, they enshittify.” I thought he was making it up.

Now, however, i believe it. Seeing how Google has started massively enshittifying its products around 2020, roughly 20 years after its inception, after providing good service for sth like 20 years (think 2012 Youtube), and Musk starting to be a rampant asshole, after having put out tweets such as this one:

as recently as in 2018.

I think there’s multiple different types of “evil”. What you’re referring to is “sociopathy”: An utter disregard for human life.

A lot of people have observed in the past that there’s always a new field of work, whenever an old one gets automated/replaced by some cheaper method of doing it.

That growth has driven demand for human labor ever since, and higher demand for labor means higher wages (since the labor market is a free market - supply and demand). Now that growth seems to be slowing down, and that makes the demand for human labor slow down, and that depresses wages. That is what people are observing now.

People are surprised because they wrongly assumed that growth would continue to be an exponential curve forever. It is not, however, it is probably closer to being a sigmoid curve.

Yeah what you’re describing, in computerized maths, is called a “local minimum”.

When you’re seeking out a global minimum of a function, such as in this example:

You might be tempted to think “well, i start somewhere, then i take one small step after another, always going downhill, until i am at the lowest point”. But what happens in practice, is that you get stuck in so called “local minimums”. For a visualization:

That is the fundamental problem with being short-sighted (i.e., taking one small step after another, always going downhill). If you really want to find the global minimum, you have to think globally. You have to apply analysis to the whole function, not just local parts of it, to find the best spot.

I think you fundamentally misunderstand how companies are thinking.

They are thinking “well, if i pay my workers 10% less, surely they have 10% less money to spend, and that means they buy fewer products, and that hurts revenue, but they probably buy some other company’s products anyway, so that’s other company’s loss, not mine.”

companies aren’t so much an organized hivemind as people seem to be thinking. A lot of them are literally competing against one another, and they don’t care whether other businesses struggle because they pay their employees less.

I mean, they often dom’t even care if their own employees struggle as long as they continue working for the company. Why would they care about other companies, or even the greater economy in total? They don’t. Who should care, though, is the government. The US has an incredibly weak government that does not protect its citizens and give them appropriate subsidies. That’s why people are having economic hardships.

It is because of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall and was predicted as far back as 1880. Now we’re seeing it in reality. The surprising thing isn’t that this is happening, but that it took so long to happen.

I think they are called Topfenknödel in German, i remember my family making them as well, served with jam, they are delicious!

Cake. Orange cake.

If you want my honest opinion, listen to what your feelings tell you. Don’t let people tell you what is “right” or “wrong”, as these are often meaningless concepts in relationships. Be responsible, but also: be happy.

fire in the skirt area

that could be a good porn movie 🤔

the cool thing is that it will give these “christian” dictators in the US something to do, other than destroying earth, that will hopefully distract them from destroying earth in the first place. and conveniently, it would also send them very, very far away, with low chance of them ever returning, i hope.

(m)Elon, 62

enjoy the headspace images

ask for more and i will give.

Uff, i have a lot:

Life on earth is a huge organized organism. It created intelligent humans deliberately sothat we can spread life to other planets. Living beings (plants, insects, other animals, fungi) could not do that otherwise.

All life is sentient. Sentience doesn’t come from the brain, rather it comes from the hormones in your bloodstream. When we sweat, these hormones enter the air (apparently within the fraction of a second) and other people can smell them. That is how we can instinctually know how others are feeling.

Also i have a lot of mythology:

Heaven (realm of all ideas, knowledge and forms) and Earth (origin of mass and material) are a love pair. Because they couldn’t easily meet (there was an insurmountable gap between them), they created a bridge, which is life. This way, heaven supplies the shape (genes), and Earth supplies the body, and these two can be together in this way.

Viruses are books. They have a cover (shell) and contain scripture (RNA/DNA). We humans let them in because they are nature’s messengers and have a specific purpose, which is to exchange some information.

i have that too, a lot. not just when people die though. it is quite different than just a random hallucination, because i get the feeling that an organized intelligence is actually having a plan and giving me specific information.

like, sometimes, i will have a dream that conveys something important to me, and then i will deliberately wake up in the middle of that dream in a way that makes me remember what i dreamed about, so i can write it down.

to make an example, just yesterday. i dreamed that an old school colleague of mine is in some sort of deep trouble. today, for the first time in 6 years, i get a text message from a close friend of his that asks me to meet up.

I thought you were going to say

As a videogames programmer, it is natural to me to consider myself as a character in some video game.

i’ve heard rumors that they’ve made great surprises and developments so far; but i have nothing substantial to point you to, as it’s mostly rumors that i got from friends/other people at this point.

i didn’t ask you either. regardless, you getting so snappy might be a personality thing? i was just trying to give basic perspective / general commentary.

I suspect you might work in fashion economy or something like that? From what i’ve heard, people tend to be assholes there. In IT or anything technical, bullying is practically non-existent, from what i can tell.

sounds like a situation that most people aren’t in, and can hardly relate to

In this country there are a lot of women that dress fancy.

That is not my experience. Lots of people actually dress casually around here, and bullying because of that is certainly unheard of. Maybe that’s different in the country that you live in.