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Comment by isoprophlex | Hacker News Reader

The sooner the current web dies, the better. Something better either rises from its ashes, or we lose... something that was already lost.

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or something way worse shows up.

Yea, I'm not sure how the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument really makes any sense

context. sometimes things simply have to be broken to give way for something better. ymmv.

I think there's an unexamined assumption here that "the next thing" is always going to be an improvement but there is no, non-ideological reason to hold to this assumption. Ideally, we would be actively working towards making it so but what often happens is passively riding the current and calling it "progress".

>unexamined assumption here that "the next thing" is always going to be an improvement but there is no, non-ideological reason to hold to this assumption

i'm not making that assumption at all, so whatever.

context: revolutions? if slop is a problem but is barely enough of a problem to collectively do something about it maybe letting it get out of hand would be a good motivation.

i'm not advocating for this, just providing it as a possible context where the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument could "make sense".

progress isn't just a technical issue, it involves people and people need motivation.

When you get the something worse, the previous suddenly becomes much less worse. With the help of wrapping your memories with "remember when" nostalgia making things much more palatable, the something worse suddenly makes the previous better if not good.

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