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Computers Reduce Efficiency: Case Studies of the Solow Paradox (2023)

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Re: Computers Reduce Efficiency: Case Studies of the Solow Paradox (2023)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that complex systems have not made us more knowledgeable and capable, but instead they have become a crutch. https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont...

>By the 1960s, the systematic selection for competence came into direct conflict with the political imperatives of the civil rights movement. During the period from 1961 to 1972, a series of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, and laws—most critically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964—put meritocracy and the new political imperative of protected-group diversity on a collision course. Lot of this kind of stuff. Thesi…

>>no one has offered a serious argument why the new processes produce higher or even equivalent quality faculty as opposed to simply more diverse faculty.

This is worth debunking more directly: hiring is not and has never been meritocratic, it's heavily affected by networking and cliques (something like 70% of job hires aren't publicly listed, they just ask around if anyone has recommendations). The entire point of diversity hiring is to hire from outside of the existing cliques.

Re: Computers Reduce Efficiency: Case Studies of the Solow Paradox (2023)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, so, the thing I was replying to was just someone claiming false things as I imagined. Glad we cleared it up.

No, you just misunderstood what OP meant by "this". They meant using portmanteau neologisms, and you thought they meant that specific portmanteau. No need to be nasty about it.

I didn't mean to be nasty - I was, apparently, misunderstanding OP's original message. In my defense, the causal link between these three things:

1. Person A in their blog appears to be using a weird portmanteau, "computard" 2. "Some famous people like Stallman do this" (referring to portmanteaus, and making up words, in general, and not the specific portmanteau person A used) 3. "People" maybe don't perceive that positively (making up portmanteaus..?)

is more than a bit hard to follow.

Anyway, I thought an obviously false claim was being made, but if it's just a few loose amalgamations and people brandishing their opinions about, well that's fine, it is the internet, after all.

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