Re:When the algorithm is your boss
by krageon on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:59AM
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In what way are we not? The food was fine, the power stayed on and I had water. Sure, it's harder to buy computers but the lifecycle for them was too short anyway.
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The problem is whatever advances we make they just quickly become viewed as a natural given by the historically ignorant.
It wasn't that long ago that 30% of children died before age 1. Imagine having a baby and there is a 30% chance it is dead in a year? That is almost all of human history.
The complaint will remain constant no matter what. If everyone owned a BMW some people would complain there is this aristocratic class that has a 7 series while the peasants all own 3 series and that we need to make things more equal.
We are so equal that the richest man in history and a homeless person practically have the same smart phone.