here is a crassly Marxist view of our times. so as the bourgeoisie overthrew the feudal lords, as the industrialist overthrew the farmer; and as each of these eras was a tumult; so too is the struggle of technician over industrialist, and so are our timeshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1454302050209071118 …
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yeah thats fair anywayhttps://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1454337706054455303?t=ZtS5XypX7AJ9IJGMa3N-Yw&s=19 …
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managerialistshttps://twitter.com/thevoidbeckon/status/1454337613511344130?t=ZtS5XypX7AJ9IJGMa3N-Yw&s=19 …
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The angle I find interesting on this is that there is a renewed push for software performance after decades of decline where hardware advances were plentiful but squandered by mounting software inefficiencies. It's like a meta sticking-it-to-the-ingroup-man.
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"oh you think we need you? Well, we could always start doing our jobs WELL and coast on old hardware for a decade or so
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Ok but in each overthrow here we had increasing energy that allowed for more social complexity, division of labor, etc. Now we are on the downswing wrt to energy so that's going to make a huge difference in what we transform into.
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energy can be context-dependent - think of energy locked into time-wasting and doomscrolling and couch potatoing - not to mention biological energy locked in monocrops, social energy locked in cliches, political energy locked in bureaucracy
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