From 3249228603f213be930ab614b49170cba34f53b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 00:27:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] autopushed --- Open Letter to Google.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Open Letter to Google.md b/Open Letter to Google.md index 96a3a88c7..b7c5a7895 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ So why become evil, indeed, if you can be good and get away with it? If you know Manichean labels like 'good' (googly) or 'evil' (ungoogly) aside, the question is: why do companies degrade over time? (is [[enshittification]] unavoidable?) -The answer, I believe, is on first approximation relatively straightforward: because all systems will tend to degrade with time, as a manifestation of entropy; because of the emergent forces within social systems that tend to seek to consolidate themselves in hierarchies that risk abusing their positions of power; because things tend not to be, or remain, as good as they seem like they can be. +The answer, I believe, is on first approximation relatively straightforward: because all systems will tend to degrade with time, as a manifestation of entropy; because of the emergent forces within social systems that tend to seek to consolidate themselves in hierarchies and occasionally abuse or mismanage their positions of power; because things on the whole tend not to be, or remain, as good as they seem like they can be. Because of inefficiencies and lack of trust and coordination. Because of [[Moloch]], as some say. If so: it is to help defeat [[Moloch]] and improve human-computer systems that I'm writing this, and that I started building the [[Agora]].