techfeathers

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by techfeathers 2y ago
Core tenet of anti-wokism: one must acknowledge/ pay lip service to the notion of racism and other social issues, but one must not permit any further exploration of said issue. One interesting subtext to where tech philosophy is landi
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Can someone steelman (or just represent) the argument of why Bud Light supporting Dylan Mulvaney is wokeness and not classical liberalism/free speech?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Do you really believe this? It seems inconsistent with free speech and Paul Graham’s own definition of wokeness. What other ideologies fall in this category? Or another way, what ideologies don’t fall under the category of free speech? Sh
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Some people compare wokeness to a religion, and I think this is somewhat of an apt description. There’s a meme going around about abortion or whatever that says that it’s fine if you’re religious and you want to limit yourself, but your re
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I don’t disagree with his definition, not disagree that it’s a problem, but it’s still feels a bit to anti-Wokey in that he calls out things that he just disagrees with. #metoo brought down some terrible people who did terrible things, I d
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by techfeathers 2y ago
50 years ago when there were like 3 television channels? Do we really want to return to the “free speech” when no one had a voice
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I wonder if another reason for tech’s move right is more boring and traditional: They're old. They’re approaching middle age, the insights that they uniquely held are no longer relevant and they want to preserve their wealth and power
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by techfeathers 2y ago
The challenge is that the better AI gets at coding the lower the barrier to entry, so being an I indie dev will be like being on YouTube. Anyone with dedication could post 300 videos a year and get thousands or tens of thousands of views,
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I think a big question is what outcomes do you want. Let’s say a vaccine is dangerous. How many people are you willing to sacrifice on the misinformation. What if it leads to social upheaval? You could ask similar questions about say, c
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I watched this debate between Destiny and a centrist influencer and the centrist influencer was really confident in their perspectives, but also said they mostly used heuristics to learn things. There’s nothing wrong with heuristics, but t
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I’m really into the TV show Downton Abbey, and lately I’ve come to take one of the characters as a role model of mine, and it’s telling that that role model is the Butler. Still a position to aspire to but squarely in the lower classes. I
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by techfeathers 2y ago
One perspective that I don’t know 100% agree with but I often observe. There’s no such thing as a conpromise on free speech, and that’s not the goal. The objective is not to find a center but to pull as far to my side as I can. That’s why
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I’m really disturbed the extent to which companies are in lockstep with the government, and this should be a conservative value? I’m glad to see a reset on DEI in general, it’s not going away but we’ve needed new ideas in the space and I s
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I don’t know that I disagree with the premise, but nationalizing anything during an administration that is key in denationalizing stuff, I just don’t see the current federal government, not maybe any of them being inclined to act in Califor
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Yes. Moreso for 2020 and 2012.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Well, except in this case, don’t they actually want to cut a shot ton maybe even $2 trillion from the budget? This is the kind of lie where Musk doesn’t care and everyone else does but he just said it to get Trump elected. I think Musk wa
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by techfeathers 2y ago
What’ s he bragging about the fact he’s not going to be successful? Or bragging about the fact he can lie?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I don’t understand the like strategy/politics of lying. Sure I never thought they were going to cut 2 trillion dollars from the budget, but why tell the truth about it now?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This is an interesting change, since threads was supposed to be the nice place, but liberals in my feed(particularly journalists fwiw) were super upset about the lack of politics. I assume though underlying this will be an attempt to depri
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This says it’s a self report leaderboard, and an incomplete one at that? https://www.thegamer.com/elon-musk-not-world-top-20-diablo-4...
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I dunno, JD Vance almost entirely exists because tech felt they couldn’t trust Trump. Is Dana White really relying on Trump or just sort of an affiliate of the MAGA brand. I think you can ride on the coattails without getting to close. In
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by techfeathers 2y ago
There’s seems to be constant conflict between, one must be able to criticize a concept (H1b visa’s) even if that concept is commonly associated with a specific group, and the fact that many people who see that a specific group associated wi
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I find the big push towards supporting and white washing a second Trump term fairly astounding because it feels like Trump is really good at scapegoating the people around him. I don’t outright disagree with most of the things Mark says (hi
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Agreed, I always felt like most of the fact checking that has become vogue in the past ten years is designed to comfort the people who already agree, not inform people who want genuine insight.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I think the sad thing is that you just don’t need search engines any more because there is too much conglomeration. There’s basically like three kinds of websites. Companies, Social Media, and Wikipedia.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I’m curious how long it will take for the moderate “bad boys” to turn against Trump / Republicans. I don’t know that that that crowd was ever really “left wing” but it definitely wasn’t cool to like Bush, particularly in the latter ha
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by techfeathers 2y ago
As a Harris supporter, I actually agree, I think it was way too heavy handed and hurt Harris more than helped. I’m not sure anymore what the goal of fact checking is (I’ve always felt it was somewhat dubious if not done extremely well).
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by techfeathers 2y ago
With the end of Chevron deference, does that mean the future of Crypto lies with Congress, not Trump?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Why is it the web seems to be the one outlier environment that we care about echo chambers? Almost everywhere else seems to have some definition of relevance and propriety, also, it seems like your argument is not that diversity of thought
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by techfeathers 2y ago
“I appreciate X for the fact that all sorts of views are represented.” Unless you’re against H1b Visa’s. All sirts of views are represented ion BlueSky as well? It’s just a different set of ideas. https://www.nbcnews.com/te

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