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This is a deliberate blacklisting of a command based on a political agenda. Technology is built in service to mankind.

by armatav 6y ago

eyelidlessness 6y ago
"Black lives matter" is not a political agenda, it is explicitly a service to mankind.
- armatav 6y ago
  Machines should not alter user input.
  - eyelidlessness 6y ago
    That's literally the definition of machines.
    - armatav 6y ago
      Maybe when you code.
      - eyelidlessness 6y ago
        It is the mechanical definition of a machine. A machine inherently alters the action performed by the human operating it.
- Amezarak 6y ago
  This is a fantastic demonstration of what Zizek means when he talks about modern ideology. > For subjects to believe in an ideology, it must have been presented to them, and been accepted, as non-ideological indeed, as True and Right, and what anyone sensible would believe. As we shall see in 2e, Žižek is alert to the realist insight that there is no more effective political gesture than to declare some contestable matter above political contestation. Just as the third way is said to be post-ideological or national security is claimed to be extra-political, so Žižek argues that ideologies are always presented by their proponents as being discourses about Things too sacred to profane by politics. Hence, Žižek’s bold opening in The Sublime Object of Ideology is to claim that today ideology has not so much disappeared from the political landscape as come into its own. It is exactly because of this success, Žižek argues, that ideology has also been able to be dismissed in accepted political and theoretical opinion. https://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/#Ha https://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/#Ha I think it's actually fairly concerning that the fault lines between ideologies seems to be deepening - people seemed more and more convinced that their positions are absolutely not even contestable. I'm not sure where there is room for civil political discourse and positive change in this kind of scenario.
  - armatav 6y ago
    Yep - exactly right, I shouldn’t have responded to it - I knew it was coming from the top level post. That thought process is absolutely poisonous for technology - it’s like a viral brain-lock.

This is a deliberate blacklisting of a command based on a political agenda. Technology is built in service to mankind.

eyelidlessness 6y ago

"Black lives matter" is not a political agenda, it is explicitly a service to mankind.

armatav 6y ago
Machines should not alter user input.
- eyelidlessness 6y ago
  That's literally the definition of machines.
  - armatav 6y ago
    Maybe when you code.
    - eyelidlessness 6y ago
      It is the mechanical definition of a machine. A machine inherently alters the action performed by the human operating it.
Amezarak 6y ago
This is a fantastic demonstration of what Zizek means when he talks about modern ideology. > For subjects to believe in an ideology, it must have been presented to them, and been accepted, as non-ideological indeed, as True and Right, and what anyone sensible would believe. As we shall see in 2e, Žižek is alert to the realist insight that there is no more effective political gesture than to declare some contestable matter above political contestation. Just as the third way is said to be post-ideological or national security is claimed to be extra-political, so Žižek argues that ideologies are always presented by their proponents as being discourses about Things too sacred to profane by politics. Hence, Žižek’s bold opening in The Sublime Object of Ideology is to claim that today ideology has not so much disappeared from the political landscape as come into its own. It is exactly because of this success, Žižek argues, that ideology has also been able to be dismissed in accepted political and theoretical opinion. https://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/#Ha https://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/#Ha I think it's actually fairly concerning that the fault lines between ideologies seems to be deepening - people seemed more and more convinced that their positions are absolutely not even contestable. I'm not sure where there is room for civil political discourse and positive change in this kind of scenario.
- armatav 6y ago
  Yep - exactly right, I shouldn’t have responded to it - I knew it was coming from the top level post. That thought process is absolutely poisonous for technology - it’s like a viral brain-lock.