1629: Tools
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 Title text: I make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for ... |
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Cueball asks Megan what she does, and she begins by answering "I make tools that make tools." So far, this is a common expression of the way a sophisticated technology is built on simple building blocks, with one set of tools used to build a more powerful set of tools, and so on. However, the iterations are carried to comical lengths, with Megan spending twenty minutes reeling off various steps including development of software code and software code debugging and development tools. Cueball finally interrupts to ask about the ultimate objective of all these steps. Megan admits that she doesn't know, and guesses that it probably has to do with porn (a reference to the observation that many information technologies from printing to computers are quickly adopted by porn producers and distributors).
See also: 1579: Tech Loops.
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Will X be used for porn? >Yes
Problem solved. It WILL be used for porn. International Space Station (talk) 07:57, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- What about spent uranium fuel rods? Y1ff (talk) 15:15, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Used for films with the very hottest of porn stars. 108.162.245.179 21:24, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Truly, a scintillating performance. 162.158.152.227 23:16, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Used for films with the very hottest of porn stars. 108.162.245.179 21:24, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Compare The Thingummybob. 141.101.106.221 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
"A tool made by a tool made by a tool made by a tool" is just a 4th generation MIT student :P --108.162.218.148 20:52, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
It might also be a teasing reference to the Marxist concept of "Alienation," part of which is workers being too far separated from the products of their labor or having too little control over the productive process, and mentally suffering from the separation. Megan doesn't seem to be suffering much.162.158.184.125 18:39, 11 February 2016 (UTC) 162.158.184.125 18:36, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
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