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To the curmudgeon, its techno-sycophancy to say the wheel is a pretty good thing. It’s just another take on shill / sheeple / etc. it gets old.
by brookst 3mo ago
To the curmudgeon, its techno-sycophancy to say the wheel is a pretty good thing.
It’s just another take on shill / sheeple / etc. it gets old.
- stackghost 3mo agoAnd to the sycophant, pointing out real and obvious drawbacks is being a curmudgeon.
- overtone1000 3mo agoIn such situations, the golden mean is a useful lens.
- Razengan 3mo agoMortal combat is the only way to resolve this.
- tremon 3mo agoThe golden mean is only a useful lens if all sides are equally prepared to take up extremist positions. If some people are taking up considerate or even reasonable positions but others take up the absolute, the golden mean will always skew towards the unreasonable.