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Donald Trump is basically a comment section running for president There is this really big world of people who don't think like you, know that history repeats

Donald Trump is basically a comment section running for president There is this really big world of people who don't think like you, know that history repeats itself, recognized before you were born that software can enslave, and that are aware that serving man would be something that would allow for his own autonomy. Serving man with software would then be about creating the independence of man from you while still allowing you to be you.

donatj 9y ago
This. You’re not serving man by discounting half the population. Period.
- GiorgioG 9y ago
  > The truth is that it's been hard to write because this has been a deeply troubling year in so many dimensions — for men, for tech, for American democracy. American "democracy" isn't any more troubling in 2017 than 2016 or any other year before that, it's just that his party has effectively very little power. If he means Trump is still POTUS, then he's right. He's vehemently anti-Trump: https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the-dream/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the... As for men/tech, I'm not sure why it's a surprise to anyone that the type of (alpha?) male that winds up in a position of power (and/or money) would abuse and misuse it for sexual predatory behavior. This has gone on for most of human history. A very small sample of randomly chosen examples from our recent past: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167013/Sexual-predators-police-abusing-power-target-victims-investigation-warns.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167013/Sexual-preda... http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexual-violence-in-world-war-ii-new-german-study-looks-at-rape-trauma-60-years-on-a-585779.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexual-violence-... https://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/03/sexual-and-predatory-magnitude-of-the-allied-forces-after-wwii-part-ii/ https://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/03/sexual-and-predator... Learning that these types of things happen frequently != epidemic or that somehow 2017 was the year of the sexual predator.
- Tharkun 9y ago
  What makes you say that he's discounting half the population?
comicjk 9y ago
You're cherrypicking. He describes that line as a joke from 2015 that he doesn't find funny anymore, and goes on to say he wants to make "software that helps people be the best version of themselves."

donatj 9y ago

This. You’re not serving man by discounting half the population. Period.

GiorgioG 9y ago
> The truth is that it's been hard to write because this has been a deeply troubling year in so many dimensions — for men, for tech, for American democracy. American "democracy" isn't any more troubling in 2017 than 2016 or any other year before that, it's just that his party has effectively very little power. If he means Trump is still POTUS, then he's right. He's vehemently anti-Trump: https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the-dream/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the... As for men/tech, I'm not sure why it's a surprise to anyone that the type of (alpha?) male that winds up in a position of power (and/or money) would abuse and misuse it for sexual predatory behavior. This has gone on for most of human history. A very small sample of randomly chosen examples from our recent past: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167013/Sexual-predators-police-abusing-power-target-victims-investigation-warns.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167013/Sexual-preda... http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexual-violence-in-world-war-ii-new-german-study-looks-at-rape-trauma-60-years-on-a-585779.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexual-violence-... https://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/03/sexual-and-predatory-magnitude-of-the-allied-forces-after-wwii-part-ii/ https://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/03/sexual-and-predator... Learning that these types of things happen frequently != epidemic or that somehow 2017 was the year of the sexual predator.
Tharkun 9y ago
What makes you say that he's discounting half the population?

comicjk 9y ago

You're cherrypicking. He describes that line as a joke from 2015 that he doesn't find funny anymore, and goes on to say he wants to make "software that helps people be the best version of themselves."