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It's a manifesto. They are saying "We are X, and here is what we believe". Anyone can do that, no authority required.
by oh_sigh 5y ago
It's a manifesto. They are saying "We are X, and here is what we believe". Anyone can do that, no authority required.
- temp8964 5y agoThey are saying they represent some sort of consensus. Of course anyone can say that too, but most people don’t talk that way.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThey represent the concensus amongst themselves, as technorealists. As technorealists, we seek to expand the fertile middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism. We are technology "critics" in the same way, and for the same reasons, that others are food critics, art critics, or literary critics. We can be passionately optimistic about some technologies, skeptical and disdainful of others. Still, our goal is neither to champion nor dismiss technology, but rather to understand it and apply it in a manner more consistent with basic human values. From TFA.
- temp8964 5y agoConsensus among themselves? LoL.