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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15

      eigenrobot Retweeted Amjad Masad ⠕

      yes and no 1. the stone age was an age of the generalist although even there specialists existed 2. @visakanv claimed probably <1% can really read or write, yes and no but also yes 3. lots of people can manipulate software. your doing it nowhttps://twitter.com/amasad/status/1460030128616927234 …

      eigenrobot added,

      Amjad Masad ⠕ @amasad
      Humanity is in the middle of a transition to the Information Age, but less than 1% can make or manipulate software. If < 1% knew how to hunt during the Stone Age we would have gone extinct. If < 1% could read/write during the Industrial Age we would not have the modern world.
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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15

      .@alicemazzy wrote a characteristically good essay about this that covers the territory better imo https://jacobitemag.com/2017/12/05/a-priesthood-of-programmers/ …pic.twitter.com/rJJcvZpp9j

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15

      the future belongs to coders. this has been clear since the 90s and only grows truer as time passes. our current struggles pitch the old priesthood against the new but the end is not in doubt. this is historic dialectical if you want to be marxist about it. it is inexorable

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      now is the time of monstershttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1449906993519464450?t=TGmHv36soG3q9p4Ia2WRcw&s=19 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      Replying to @XLsmolbean @Logo_Daedalus
      the age of the seething lit nerd is ending. the age of roon is at hand
      4 replies 4 retweets 50 likes
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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15

      eigenrobot Retweeted Duke

      we'll always have clever knaves and ruthless killers at the top but their actions will be constrained and shaped by the tools of the priestshttps://twitter.com/OfKimbriki/status/1460215981830066177?t=-vL8RWWtTeGQ_86cNUzEyw&s=19 …

      eigenrobot added,

      Duke @OfKimbriki
      Replying to @eigenrobot
      the future belongs - as does the past - to the manager. Whoever can co-ordinate others will always win the lions share.
      6 replies 4 retweets 42 likes
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    6. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Nov 15
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      I have never really liked the idea that it is an innate feature of the world that most economic returns will accrue to some sort of leadership or management skill. It rubs me wrong because at a super high level no factor of production should be intrinsically advantaged.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Nov 15
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot

      And I think it is in fact wrong, and there has been substantial variation in which factor receives the highest wage, and the mistake is rooted in the fact that *earning a high wage* grants you a large share of resources to direct at your pleasure.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    8. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Nov 15
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot

      And I think if you look historically you would have to say that there is a lot of goalpost-shifting on which action counts as "management" or "coordination" between say Julius Caesar and Jeff Bezos.

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky

      being good at getting other people to do things and making decisions quickly afaict does that seem off to you?

      4:18 AM - 15 Nov 2021
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        2. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Nov 15
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I'm kind of at eeehhhhhhhhhh for this.

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        3. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Nov 15
          Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot

          Like I feel a vast gulf between CEO whose main tool for motivating employees is "you work for a salary" versus a guy who relies more on charisma and a cult of personality (part of which is yes a promise of plunder etc) to get people to endure mortal peril.

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