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Far from making a small shelter that could be adequately heated by a small fire, their way was to make no shelter at all, and heat instead a sizable area of the landscape. The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a ‘practical’ point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Automation ultimately isn’t steered by the aim of making things work better or easier for the people they are imposed on; it is meant to divert resources according to the operative distributions of power. It certainly doesn’t redistribute power downward. Rather it systematically puts people in their place. The equilibrium that automated systems settle into isn’t about efficiency so much as ideology: the optimal level of frustration that people can be made to bear without sparking any meaningful resistance. They train us in accepting ambient contempt with a sense of apathy.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
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▸ Asks clarifying questions
▸ Generates technical spec
▸ Writes all necessary code
▸ Easy to add your own reasoning steps, modify, and experiment
▸ Lets you finish a coding project in minutes.
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