A tech-thread joke says ruthless optimization may be the root of evil
gleech · x · 2026-07-21
A short thread riffing on the idea that ruthless optimization can be oddly wholesome in places like Costco and Vanguard, while the quoted reply argues the darker version of the slogan may actually be closer to the truth: many bad things come from optimization, and many good things come from checks and balances, pluralism, and regularization.
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