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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.
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LWer: politics is really hard to be Rational about, so how about we just forget all about it?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBXvMEwzTknN26NZp/that-which-cannot-be-poked-with-a-stick-is-the-mind-killer
Bad: arguing about prison abolition
Good: arguing about how to fastest get to the closest Muni station
This gets dangerously close to acknowledging that the rationalist method isn't actually very useful for any area where it isn't trivial.
I keep bouncing back to this one and I think that the core objection is that the method of discourse that they're trying to advance here is fundamentally incapable of handling people actually disagreeing. Like, the whole concept of "identifying a crux" basically requires that there's a central point of agreement somewhere. In my experience a lot of these issues are better understood as tradeoffs and compromises. It is simultaneously true that some people will do terrible things left to their own devices and locking them up seems to be one of the only things society can collectively agree to do about it and also that locking people up is fundamentally cruel and it's bad that we do it. The challenge isn't in identifying the central point of agreement between those two but in managing their fundamental incompatibility.
This could have been a tweet. I seriously 100% believe that this logorrhea could have been a single Xart. What the fuck is wrong with these people?
It could. Thanks elon for allowing walls of text as tweets... ;)
til soyweiser’s current char build is chaotic semi-evil
(I jest I jest)
Chaotic annoying.
E: now im wondering, did musk destroy the saying on purpose? Did he overhear somebody complain about some long meeting of his they just attended with 'this could have been a tweet' and go: 'we will see about that'. He is petty enough for it, after all he most likely went after USAID because USAID was going after starlink.
So, the default for any PC
Love the second example of immigration because not only does it completely miss the crux of the issue (free movement is a human right and must not be conditional) but also boils down to "actually this IS measurable and provable but Charlie doesn't like the outcome so lalala whatabout Germany"