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		dbspin on Oct 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok... Picture a two curves of technical progress. One is the process toward creating a 'hot' media stimuli so addicting that it shifts your utility function. The other is the route to interstellar travel. Now imagine the relative resources that are being expended to push technology along each curve.

jareklupinski on Oct 21, 2024 [–]

an intersection of the two curves must exist, at some point

when two roads diverge in a yellowed wood, blaze down the middle

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