Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by TeMPOraL on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:01AM (#15617672)

This is what the bulk of Meditations on Moloch[0] is about - under competitive pressure, if you can forgo a value in order to get ahead, you outcompete those not willing to do so. Iterate over it, and you can see how competition gradually throws all values under the bus, until all that remains is the money-making core.

(I like to sometimes phrase it as "the market optimizes for creating the most useless thing that you can still trick people into buying".)

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by no-s on Saturday November 04, 2017 @03:30PM (#15626496)

meditations on moloch seems to include several false premises. eg, in the fish farming scenario, it neglects the obvious: libertarian pacts are created to recognize property rights, which would yield a libertarian response to defectors - they're stealing productive capacity of the lake, ergo they're initiating a conflict.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 04, 2017 @05:07PM (#15626902)

Property rights themselves are a coordination problem - i.e. why should one respect the property rights of others when it benefits one to ignore them?

In real world, we solve this the usual way - by having a government enforce them.

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