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by throwanem 1541 days ago
You use the word "nature" and its cognates surprisingly frequently in this description of an entirely artificial set of processes.
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If you want to quibble the semantics, we can take this even further.

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but humans are of the biological class mammalia. We are nature.

If we’re nature, then everything we do is natural.

Unless you want to enshrine Netflix’s market position in law, Companies, like species, will always compete with each other.

Companies in our civilizations, like species in our forests, will expand until the limits of TAM or outcompetition by a predator company.

When you need to define the concept of artifice out of existence, and hope your audience fails to notice, in order to sustain your argument, what does that say about the argument?
And thus, we have reached the logical endpoint of semantic debate, ie. no longer confronting the underlying ideas in GP's comment.

If you replace the word "natural" with "artificial" in GP's comment, it doesn't change anything about what he/she was saying.