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From: Flancian <0@flancia.org>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 00:26:56 +0200
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@@ -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 and matches the topic of [[Asimov]]'s classic [[The Last Question]]: because all systems will tend to degrade with time, as a manifestation of entropy; because of the emergent forces within our social systems that tend 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 that risk abusing their positions of power; because things 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]].