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Re:Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out? by FloorEgg on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @11:28PM (#43339698)
It seems like your conflating the meaning of zero-sum. It's specific to limited contexts where one party's gain must come at an equal loss to another party. "Every path you choose to go down in life, is a path you didn't go down" has nothing to do with the concept of zero-sum.

Our entire civilization is built on non-zero-sum cooperation. Technology is the byproduct of non-zero-sum cooperation.

If you're going to try and argue against game theory, your going to have to bring a much better argument.

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Re:Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out? by riehwvfbk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:40AM (#43341335)
^^ Redefines meaning of life to be dollars, accuses opponent of redefining zero-sum.

Silicon Valley is built on the attention economy. That term is a euphemism for making people spend their waking hours on addictive crap, taking away from the useful sum total. That's my definition.

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Re:Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out? by FloorEgg on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:56PM (#43347584)
Silicon valley is built on transistors, and by extension computers and software. The media industry is built on the attention economy.

Competing for people's attention is a zero-sum game, but building technology that helps people be more productive and do new things they couldn't before is not zero-sum.

Are you accusing me of redefining the meaning of life to be dollars? If so, I completely deny that accusation as it doesn't remotely align with my beliefs or what I said in my comment.

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