17
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
17 points (100.0% liked)
TechTakes
2154 readers
69 users here now
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
@swlabr
oh no Kimball: "Astral Codex Ten—and its prior incarnation, Slate Star Codex—is one of my favorite blogs. "
Another link he posted last year: "Richard Hanania's Argument for Legalizing Euthanasia"
Also he seems to be more of a "classical liberal" than what people tend to consider a liberal in the left-of-center sense.
"Classical liberal" usually registers to me as a libertarian/paleoconservative trying to mainstream themselves.
@istewart
Yes this. Libertarian yahoos in waistcoats. "I'm not one of those people, I am dignified."
that's a big oof from me dawg.
RE: "liberal" as a label: the way that I define "liberal" is pretty much purely in the classical sense, and it still covers the "modern" "left-of-center" sense, because someone who claims to be a left-liberal that still supports the underlying liberal politics is actually disconnected from any actual leftist ideology. Most left-liberals are willing to throw actual leftists and leftist causes under the bus so that their ~~sports team~~ party can get into power.
@swlabr
When I said "repackaged by conservatives to court liberals" I was using 'liberal' in the common sloppy American sense where it just means someone on the center left to left, as opposed to the "progressive shop talk" sense of "ratfucking centrists".
Ah yes, im a classical liberal of the style of Locke how he thought about slavery, that kind of classical stuff.