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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.Can there be such a thing as too much fun?
Can there be such a thing as too much profit?
In both cases, I think ‘no’. And I wonder if the fear of ‘too much’ fun and ‘too much’ profit is fundamentally the same thing.
Like, when parents worry that their kids are having too much fun, and when socialists are suspicious of companies turning a profit… is that an expression of the same fear?
Maybe the role of profit in the economy is the same as that of fun in a single mind: it signals successful discovery of common preferences.
Somebody on Twitter wrote, addressing old-school programmers in the context of vibe coding, “Your once exclusive access just got democratized.”
I wonder if that’s the same or at least analogous to minds error correcting some skill to the point they automatize it.
In both cases, access to knowledge becomes cheap and fast.
I'm struggling to understand how this ties in with your original post about common preferences.
Both ideas are about working toward a universal theory of creation by studying parallels between mind and economy.