I’m kinda glad this metaphor is obscure if you don’t know the computing sense of the term. I’d get ratio’d otherwise. I laid it out a few years ago when the metaphor was less... fraught.https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/are-you-graph-garbage …
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Replying to @vgr
But isn’t the opposite? Covid strikes the nodes that are connected to the graph, while leaving the disconnected to live on.
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Replying to @bpettichord
Depends which graph we talk about. Think economic productivity/value.
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Replying to @vgr
Maybe two types of connections. Those who are connected through social media thrive. Those who are still connected to others mostly through physical 20th century connections are risk of garbage collection.
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Replying to @bpettichord
Homeless people are the paradigmatic case. Cut out of every consequential social graph but in the dense core of the virus transmission graph.
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Replying to @vgr
I also think of folks like MTA workers, but I guess the point of this theory is just to automate the trains.
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Replying to @bpettichord
Exactly... you’re getting why this is a dank metaphor. The people at most risk in the dull, dirty, dangerous work are going to have their jobs automated away slowly once this ends. They’re marked for collection already.
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Replying to @vgr
Manual cash tool booths on the turnpikes have already been shutdown. Will they ever reopen?
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Replying to @bpettichord
Yeah cash elimination might be the biggest garbage collection operation. Nobody will have any change to give homeless people, and the little “no cash” lie we use to dodge them will become true
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High winds just knocked out my power and am now living off batteries and candles. Virtual connections now at risk. Must save battery to avoid garbage collection. Good night.
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