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>The Puritan and the modern intellect-centered (technical, ideological, on social media a lot...) type person have something in common As someone who is more r
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>The Puritan and the modern intellect-centered (technical, ideological, on social media a lot...) type person have something in common
As someone who is more read I care to be about the culture of early new england I feel very comfortable (and by comfortable, I mean I hate it and I think that it is a terrible trend) saying that the current crop of people who fancy themselves intellectuals and historical puritans have approximately the same politics. They have some radically different beliefs about acceptable behavior but the overarching fundamentals about right vs wrong and community, family and self line up very well. This is not a compliment.
- baandam 4y agoThe worst part to me is we are basically encoding puritanical values into the "soul" and bedrock foundations of AI for all future generations. "Impure thoughts are a danger to democracy, access denied."
- swayvil 4y agoThe nightmare is no further than the latest social-media conversation. How can you tell when somebody has been removed from the conversation? How does a conversation that's been tweaked visibly differ from normal? We could be living in a world of total bullshit, yet oblivious.