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Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology)

Interesting essay looking at the role of friction in human development, and how a particular vision of technology’s function in society - one that seeks to eliminate friction - paradoxically reduces our autonomy, rather than enhancing it.

This post was reported as spam on technology @ lemmy.world, and was removed, then eventually reinstated, by the mods. The original reason for removal was “it’s not really technology-related.” I suspect it’s being brigaded due to my cryptocurrency criticism, but I have no way to know for sure.

solrize ,

This turns out to be spam for a book.

smallpatatas OP ,

Huh? This is a link to an essay, unless I’m entirely missing something

solrize ,

Scroll to the end, and anyway it’s a poor fit for the technology community.

admin ,
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This article could do with a Bottom Line Up Front. I got halfway through the page and I still had no idea what problem it was trying to solve by adding new problems.

smallpatatas OP ,

Well, thanks for not incorrectly calling the post spam and downvoting it at least lol

solrize ,

It is spam, scroll to the end and it promotes a book.

admin ,
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By that logic every news website is spam, because those also contain ads.

I agree the article is without much merit. But calling it spam because it also appears in a book and it mentions that source, is just diluting the term.

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