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  • Hmm, the graph given is sus. The trend starts before the AI sector was really a thing, like literally 2010.

    If I just look at the extra degree to which it came back after covid, it’s maybe double the dotcom bubble and a lot smaller than 2008.

    Edit: To explain a bit more,

    they’re basically assuming that any growth past the corporate interest rate plus 2% is bullshit. If they’ve drawn the graph correctly that actually predicts the 'oughts recessions pretty well, but past 2010 looks a lot like it has meaningless drift.

    The big question, when it comes to whether to buy into this, is if it works across the last century. Since it’s a simple, old idea and it’s not everywhere I’m guessing no, and they did some strategic cropping.





  • I think one can take that even further. Is it possible that the fact that people who rely on truth and morality (which seems like a human constant if not a natural one) converge, is the whole reason either one has a place in our society? Almost all our instincts lead us away from them, otherwise. Everybody loves a comforting lie and the occasional atrocity against outsiders.

    So do you believe in an objective reality, or not? You said a couple of opposite things there.


  • It’s kind of a tale as old as time. If there’s a socially correct way to think, and at least two people, they’re inevitably going to disagree on which way that is at some point, and splinter into subfactions that hate each other. (Lemmy has examples of this already)

    When this has happened before in politics specifically, liberal use of violent purges is the Nash equilibrium. If everyone with power but the great leader dies after a while, especially ones that dare contradict them, no enemy factions can organise.