To understand terminal capitalism, first you must understand recursion.

    • neatchee@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Not to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that’s not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn’t need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        1 day ago

        What does capitalism do but logically terminate resources?

        But note taken. I just think the comparison is inspiring.

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          18 hours ago

          Logically terminating resources does not imply a terminating logic loop. Clever wordplay, though.

          Recursion has a specific definition. It means solving a problem by breaking a process down into smaller and smaller self-similar pieces until reaching the “base case”. In programming, it (almost) always means a function that calls itself as part of its internal logic. Depending on what the function does and the conditions for returning a value from the function, it may do that one time, many times, or not at all. A classic example is the Boggle solver.

          I did say I was being pedantic :P

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      2 days ago

      Oh, I meant the ping pong loop of the GitHub bot and it was pure technical nitpicking. But since you’re asking, the definition of recursion is a function calling itself. I find it difficult thinking about capitalism as a single function. For me it looks more like running an infinite loop on finite resources. But applying a technical term as a metaphor leaves a lot of room for interpretation, so there is no right or wrong