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This is what he said: "The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky: “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assault
by K0balt 6y ago
This is what he said:
"The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky: “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims [2])” The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault” is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation: taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X... The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing... We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates…"
Not politically clever to say, but hardly an endorsement of sexual assault.
- bjourne 6y agoNot an endorsement of sexual assault, but definitely an attempt to downplay the crime. According to https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-island-court-records-unsealed https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef..., Minsky was 73-years-old at the time and the victim 17 and the assault occurred at Epstein's private island. Minsky must have known that, at the very least, she was pressured to have sex with him.
- scohesc 6y agoStallman has autism. I don't think he really understands the intricacies of social boundaries, situations, and limits.
- pseudalopex 6y agoStallman said he isn't autistic.[1] The people with autism I know abhor what Epstein did as much as anyone else. And they're pretty angry about unqualified neurotypicals diagnosing anyone they want to let off the hook. [1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxymoron.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxy...
- h_anna_h 6y ago> The people with autism I know abhor what Epstein did as much as anyone else So did Stallman. > Stallman said he isn't autistic His justification is basically that has no trouble with rhythms so he self-diagnosed himself as not having asperger's. I would suggest reading this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 and more specifically this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538554
- pseudalopex 6y ago> So did Stallman. They don't see it that way. > His justification is basically that has no trouble with rhythms so he self-diagnosed himself as not having asperger's. Stallman said he didn't have most of the characteristics of Asperger's. Rhythm was just an example. > I would suggest reading this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 and more specifically this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538554 BAP doesn't change the issue of unqualified people diagnosing someone they don't know. Or using it as an excuse.