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If the linked excerpt is supposed to be the epitome of outrage, I don’t get it. The idea is a bit odd but seems worth exploring and is better than the current a
by xwdv 5y ago
If the linked excerpt is supposed to be the epitome of outrage, I don’t get it. The idea is a bit odd but seems worth exploring and is better than the current alternatives.
- ModernMech 5y agoWhat are the current alternatives? That’s what is so irksome about this post to people in this field. It’s coming from the right place, but instead of even acknowledging the alternative solutions out there, it brushes them aside and jumps right to the most technical one imaginable - basically hook prisoners up to the Matrix. A thoughtful proposal would hold this idea up against other proposed solutions and weigh the pros and cons of each. I think even the most cursory analysis would have made the original piece much better.
- mcguire 5y agoSo what to you would be the epitome of outrage, if solitary confinement, hypothetical technology, and optimizing for the cheapest manner of keeping a human alive is not it?
- tablespoon 5y ago> If the linked excerpt is supposed to be the epitome of outrage, I don’t get it. The idea is a bit odd but seems worth exploring and is better than the current alternatives. The original blog post was an unholy combination of profound ignorance, arrogance, and the belief that problems can be solved exclusively through an almost mindless application of tech fads and buzzwords. A lot of tech people display that same unholy combination, and the Ethan Zuckerman article has a lot of good advice for overcoming it.