neo feudalism etc — epilepsywarning
Engineering hours for other humans makes you feel like God. You feel their King. Certainly, you do not feel like a user. "User" is an abstracted term reserved for the NPC, the ipad kid, the profit center. The "K Shape Economy" is maligned by hundreds of commentators who feel themselves to be in the upward sloping leg of the K. Up only. Imagine Instagram. But the posts from your friends fade to 1 in 10. The advertisements are 3 in 10. Optimized content is 6 in 10. This is today. But what if Zuck was directly beaming spoken instructions through your screen for 6 hours. That reality we approach. "Neo Feudalism" is derived from "I have more allegiance to my group chat than my state legislature". Downstream impacts are less discussed, mostly for being too cliche to address. Chat GPT has made it slightly realer, though still ignored like frogs in warm water. When GPT psychosis folks throw themselves off bridges following screen instructions, we pay more attention, for maybe one news cycle Wh
Our DAU/MAU is up 15% (these people are below me). Engineering hours for other humans makes you feel like God. You feel their King. Certainly, you do not feel like a user. "User" is an abstracted term reserved for the NPC, the ipad kid, the profit center. The "K Shape Economy" is maligned by hundreds of commentators who feel themselves to be in the upward sloping leg of the K. Up only. Imagine Instagram. But the posts from your friends fade to 1 in 10. The advertisements are 3 in 10. Optimized content is 6 in 10. This is today. But what if Zuck was directly beaming spoken instructions through
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