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The first flip collapses the wave function so that it has a definite orientation at all. The second flip then achieves the correct orientation.
The wavefunction collapses on the first attempt to plug in: it's always the wrong way.
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I think we're witnessing the enshittification of space.
are we? I know that word has "shit" in it, and this is a degredation of things, and so we want to use the new word so sound like we're cool and hip to the new lingo the kids are using, but the term, as coined by Cory Doctorow, refers to when a platform ends up in late stage capitalism and goes off extracting value from users at the cost of their experience. Like Facebook. Is that what's going on here, or is it just a…
That's Boeing's mission statement in general I think, but specifically here I think there's a strong indication that they deployed some software for their stakeholders that they promised would do a thing, then they literally un-deployed it after they got the sign-off.
Doctorow's own definition of enshittification can drift [1][2][3] but I called it that because Boeing sold this system as one thing, but then apprently unilaterally pulled a core feature. In other words they reduced the value of the system _after_ they extracted what they could from it by scoring the contract. It might not reach the exact definition, but it rhymes.
Honestly I thought "enshittification" as something "hip" had already had its time. It just seemed to apply.
[1] https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-04... He describes it as an entity "shifting value away from end users [...] and business customers [...] to itself."
[2] https://doctorow.medium.com/the-specific-process-by-which-go... "[T]he ability to change the underlying functions of the business from moment to moment and user to user, allowing for the rapid transfer of value between business customers, end users and shareholders"
[3] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/ first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
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Companies are abstract legal entities, separate from the people who run them. Companies don't have a physical form that can be arrested and locked in a cell.
You could suspend them from trading as a form of penal equivalence. Imagine something similar to Chapter 11 in which they are temporarily protected from their creditors, but at the same time cannot function.
The concept of corporate personhood is laughable when the most powerful method of coercion that the state has to ensure all people obey the law is completely inoperative for corporate people.
Why can't I just reincorporate myself as a Delaware C Corp, shoot up a school, and then pay a fine and walk away?