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The logic behind these results is that when dealing with a complicated problem, even the smartest person can get stuck. Adding a new perspective or a new set of skills can unstick us, even if the perspective is off-the-wall or the skills are mediocre. The fresh input works much like the Oblique Strategies employed by Brian Eno or the random leaps used by silicon chip algorithms. It’s the difference itself that helps.
Enshittification has only lasted for as long as it has because the internet has devolved into "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four":
Pluralistic: Tiktok's Enshittification
Cory Doctorow
To be thinking is to be alive. Thinking feels like just being. We don’t know that silence and space can even exist between thoughts, that we can exist in the absence of thinking. Furthermore, we don’t know that thoughts can appear and we can choose to decline their invitation, decide not to engage in their content. We don’t know another way of living, other than thinking.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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