On the same website I get to read considered arguments that the obvious-hyperbole joke of "computers were a mistake" should be retired from tech peoples' routine vocab because the hyperbole is not obvious to people outside tech, and taken at face value it scares and confuses them, I also have to read people loudly declaring that the concept of step-by-step procedures for accomplishing things should be abolished

I think you would be disappointed by computers without algorithms per se, folks, but you can simulate it right now by yanking out all power cords and batteries, dropping your machine on the floor, and leaving it there

...it's capitalism, the problem you have is and is with capitalism, you are objecting to capitalists nakedly attempting to manipulate your behaviour

it's just...it's going to be one of those days on here, isn't it


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in reply to @caffeinatedOtter's post:

i genuinely wonder if the use of the term "The Algorithm" has resulted in a complete lack of understanding that the issue is not the presence of algorithms, it's that the algorithms in use are put into place to employ technological seduction in order to generate profits, as opposed to a backwards-chronological or user-defined algorithm designed to foster social connection