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They'll use it better than you. That's a very common trend, the far-left develops some new tool to control the narrative or otherwise excerpt social control and
by traverseda 7y ago
They'll use it better than you. That's a very common trend, the far-left develops some new tool to control the narrative or otherwise excerpt social control and they discover that the alt-right is better equipped to use it then they are.
We've seen this time and time again. If you're going to try to use that tactic at least don't be so obvious about it. Do what the geek-feminism-wiki or derailing-for-dummies does and put all your thought-terminating cliche's into a wiki that you can claim is authoritative or otherwise supported be science, and link people to that (for bonus points tie identity politics into it so that the arguments can only be used against people in your outgroup).
You're trying to use technology to make a fully-general-counterargument which is just bad epistemology. What's worse is that if you normalize that style of discourse it will be used against you to much greater effect then you can hope to wield it. The thing about tools like this is that they're force multipliers, if you're not already winning bringing in a force multiplier like this won't help. Force-multipliers inherently favour entrenched power structures unless there's some reason why your group would be better at using them, some asymmetry.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-o... for more on asymmetric memetic warfare.
Seriously, if you're going to mess around with persuasion technology be very careful.
- some_furry 7y agoI appreciate the reading material and words of caution. I will take those to heart. <3
- traverseda 7y agoAwesome, if you want to talk about that kind of thing in more depth, or if you want some more reading material recommendations from that particular community, feel free to shoot me an email. $thisusername@gmail.com Also I just realized I linked you to the wrong article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gon...