Anomalocaris
@Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 3 hours ago:
“he died” reffers to a specific event. You’re telling that someone at some point has died.
“he is dead” is a description of the current status.
practically synonymous. like saying “he grew up” and “he’s a grown up”, “he got his license” and “he’s licensed”.
- Comment on Late 4 hours ago:
the amount of text in the mangas has remained relatively consistent. while the title wordcount has been growing out of control.
it is a matter of time before the titles themselves become while novels, followed by about 70 black and white manga pages.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 day ago:
did you try to grow it intentionally?
therefore, it’s not a weed. sorry
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 1 day ago:
time to compare mass/cooling appendage area for dinosaurs and elephants (they use their ears for cooling).
problem.
Weren’t spinosaurs aquatic? cooling surfaces like those aren’t needed if you’re in the water.
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 1 day ago:
when was “being wrong” stopped anyone?
- Comment on I think we've all been there. 1 day ago:
post mortem spasms might cause defecation
- Comment on Late 1 day ago:
who cares about collage attendance?
in my uni no one cared, of you’re late, it’s just a bit rude, of you don’t show up, no one cares.
what matters are the graded assignments and exams. if a student aces those but never stepped in a lecture hall, does that matter?
- Comment on Late 1 day ago:
modern manga titles be like
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 day ago:
I challenge the best gardener or botanist to grow weeds.
you think it’s easy, but in practice, it’s impossible
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 1 day ago:
it’s just a dude in a costume
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 day ago:
Dandelions are the only plant that spreads using children wishes
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 day ago:
therefore, it is impossible to grow a weed intentionally.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 2 days ago:
metric superiority
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 3 days ago:
actually, it seems it was well received by people who read it.
was afraid no one will read an essay here.
“too big to fail” should be turn to “too big to keep alive”
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 3 days ago:
you cannot even attempt to change the system without friction from said system. however, we shouldn’t care at all if said system complains. those systems aren’t our friend. and we need to use them for our benefit, not the other way round.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 3 days ago:
A while back, I was watching a video about emergent behaviour. A fun concept. the idea is that under some rules, the way things behave ends up making their own different rules. Like how the rules of particle physics determine how subatomic particles behave, but when together they form chemistry, a different set of rules working on top of the lower layer. The same way as biochemistry becomes its own thing, and so biology is built on top of that, and on top of that we have ecology and then humans, and sociology, economics…
It left me with a question, a rather big and stupid question. We are intelligent, sentient, we are just a bunch of cells, intelligence has appeared in our layer. and my question was, can it appear in another? would we notice if there was an intelligent organism that uses our behaviour as its cells? I am not asking for sentient, because that is such a philosophical question which would be a massive tangent just to unpack.
For a while I was just wondering if it was possible, until I realized. They exist. Institutions. they are another layer of emergence, and they do have intelligence and behaviour.
You might say, that it is obvious they are intelligent, they have a CEO that makes decisions, therefore they get their intelligence from him and/or his advisors or advising teams. good point, exceptthe CEO is not the institution, he is replaceable, and the institutions themselves have built in mechanisms for it, to run efficiently. everyone is replaceale and for what? the survival ad near cancerous growth of said institution. Shareholders only care about numbers going up, and will fire anyone who makes any decision that questions it.
Aha, you will point at the shareholders, they are people, they make the decisions. Except most of them are not, they are other institutions, other corporations trying to keep the numbers up. trying to feed on capital.
This seems obvious. But I just providing another lens. Because now we can see their behaviour under a new light. Just like living organisms requre energy and its distribution to live. Institutions need capital, need people to work in there for them to exist, need people moving money around for them to exist.
And given the new lens we can ask different questions. Do they age, evolve, get diseases, do they have an ecology?
They do age. They must grow and a bigger corporation might be stronger but less adaptable and less nimble. can take less risks, it has less space to grow and might only survive by buying off the competition. For example, we can point at Kodak, they could have developed the digital cameras except they make money selling camera film, not cameras. For them making any product that will hurt film sales was short term suicide. Digital cameras were unavoidable, they could have succeeded in the digital fight and come out on top, but trying was forbidden to them as any decision that would hurt them in the short term is beyond the scope of their actions.
Evolve? yes they do. in their own way. simply, any institution that does not grow as fast or as strong will simply die off. There is a lot of competition, and new corporations with different rules will try to take over and if they actually are better fit for their environment they will succeed. We can see the evolution of corporations within the last centuries with corporations getting more traits, all using new behaviours and try to survive copying from each other if they can.
Ecology? Just look at the markets, private equity are basically scavengers, some corporations feed each other, niche speciation, trophic cascades… all those concepts apply here in some way.
My point is, corporations are not people. They are their own creatures, which care for us. The same way you care for your own cells. Are you even aware or care that millions of your cells die regularly, for example in your gut or skin? no, the same way a corporation has absolutely no care for their workers.
This is just a lens, if you are a socialist you might think best to end them, which might work. Whatever institutions we make will likely have their own issues. A liberal might think that under these metaphors we might be able to tame them, which is possible. Except not fighting them is something corporations want us to believe.
I personally think we can consider domestication. by understanding them through this lens. One way to domesticate them is simple. Kill them. I mean the bad ones. Let them fail, and fear not for their death. If they hurt people, and there is a lawsuit, the punishment should be significant, enough to kill the company and ruin all the investors. This way surviving companies will be afraid and police themselves. They will only behave themselves as long as there are consequences for not doing so. If you try to domesticate animals you will put down those who bite and are dangerous. Another solution is that stakeholders should be entitled to shares, people who work or rely on the product should have a voice and more importantly a vote. Although then we need to look into what institution is deciding who gets shares.
BTW, this can be interpreted as a liberal believing that “Just one more reform, trust me bro”. or worse an ancap thinking we just need the right corporations. My version of a reformed capitalism would be so different it would be a stretch to call it liberal.
TLDR: corporations are not people, they need to be treated as such, and be forced to serve public interest. Even less considering them as a group of people.
- Comment on On trees... 4 days ago:
appreciate when a symbiote becomes it’s own thing.
the tree of life isn’t meant to merge branches,
Eukaryotes, corals, lychens, probably the same with chlorophyll.
- Comment on On trees... 4 days ago:
I wish, I’m only a crab, trying to become a tree
- Comment on On trees... 6 days ago:
I’m a billion years, crabs will start turning into trees and trees into crabs. merging into the ubercreature
- Comment on Will rice fix it?! 1 week ago:
Every phone is foldable, just most of them are single use
- Comment on May we take a quick selfie sir? 1 week ago:
instructions unclear, Lesbos becomes independent and begins annexing more island. long line the lesbian empire
- Comment on May we take a quick selfie sir? 1 week ago:
he’s annoyed that they aren’t buying anything
- Comment on Grieve with me 1 week ago:
or gimme a fiver and a toothpick
- Comment on 7 for me 1 week ago:
I CAST NAP NAP
- Comment on 7 for me 1 week ago:
100%
best pajamas are made of leather…
I promise, I’m not a psychopath.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 week ago:
19 to 20.
any loss clothes feel so uncomfortable.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 week ago:
who tf Donald ducks it?
- Comment on Got any grapes? 1 week ago:
i don’t have a visa :(
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 week ago:
But yeah, people need to stop trying to use letters and symbols to replace the phonemes of that letter’s name.
The whole point of written language is to replace phonemes and other concepts to symbols.
Unbeknown to us, those Karen creating Tragedighs are actually evolving human language.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
until we see each other again 🫡