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You say you’re baffled but conclude the people you are baffled by are heartless. You’re not baffled: you have made up your mind.
by gfodor 5y ago
You say you’re baffled but conclude the people you are baffled by are heartless.
You’re not baffled: you have made up your mind.
- markdown 5y agoThey are heartless. What's baffling is what they gain from being so firmly against basic displays of outreach and acceptance between humans and groups of humans.
- wiredone 5y agoThis type of bookending is why Coinbase made this decision. What data do you have that indicates they are heartless?
- whymauri 5y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-cryptocurrency-black-employees.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-crypt... https://www.lieffcabraser.com/employment/coinbase/ https://www.lieffcabraser.com/employment/coinbase/ make of this what you will.
- markdown 5y agoData? What are you, a machine? I see a good, meaningful gesture. I see people attacking that gesture. I find that heartless.
- thewakalix 5y ago> I now try to avoid using the English idiom "I just don't understand how..." to express indignation. If I genuinely don't understand how, then my model is being surprised by the facts, and I should discard it and find a better model. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tWLFWAndSZSYN6rPB/think-like-reality https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tWLFWAndSZSYN6rPB/think-like...
- Talanes 5y agoI just don't understand what kind of person expects their idioms and mental models to have a literal 1:1 match. If I wanted to say exactly what I'm thinking, I wouldn't be reaching for idioms.