And AI Slop and so on are - ironically enough - a reification of those fears. But the other bits are worse, at least for now. Huh. I feel like I should go read my own book. Thank you. 4/4
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Lean and Taylorism have been a disaster. Nowhere has productivity actually improved, at best you end up with a short term death march until the reactor unexpectedly blows.
aug 29, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 1 • view
Thanks for this. Maybe what's in common is that evil tends to involve insisting on a belief about how the world is or ought to be, at the expense of a world that isn't as imagined? A pastor friend suggested evil may intrinsically consist of "carelessness" and I wonder if he meant this.
aug 29, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I think there’s certainly a truth in the idea! But not all accounts of evil and error have to unify. There can be many, alas.
aug 29, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
And since you've used it twice in this thread, I just wanted to say thanks for teaching me the word "reification" when you used it in TGAW. 👍🏻
aug 29, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
You should, it’s really good.
aug 29, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view