From fa06f02564bce4ad5efaa02047fd2dbd6ac08326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 00:14:23 +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 48d5b2f35..b91e02203 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ After growing up in the digital context that seems to be becoming known as the [ So why be evil, indeed, if you can be good and get away with it? Make money while still increasing total utility and happiness? -The answer is relatively straightforward maybe: because systems will tend to degrade with time, as yet another 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 is relatively straightforward: because systems will tend to degrade with time, as yet another 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. 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]].