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Therein lies the friction, I embrace technology because it reduces my reliance on other people, and I don't value local community over global community (in fact

Therein lies the friction, I embrace technology because it reduces my reliance on other people, and I don't value local community over global community (in fact, just the opposite). And I want to end human labor, so you can see why I have profound dislike for his philosophy.

Barrin92 1mo ago
that's a friction between your philosophy and his philosophy, not between his philosophy and his practice. He lived exactly what he preached and so I don't understand in what sense he is a "hypocritical curmudgeon". He didn't doordash his food or hate his neighbors, he spent 60 years of his life on a small homestead farming in Kentucky, as far as I know engaged with his community.
- ChickeNES 1mo ago
  > He lived exactly what he preached “He lived exactly what he preached” is an empirical claim, not an interpretation. Can you substantiate “exactly”?
  - Barrin92 1mo ago
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  - Erem 1mo ago
    The point is that there's no evidence Berry was a hypocrite
    - ChickeNES 1mo ago
      That's a different and much weaker claim than “he lived exactly what he preached.” I challenged the latter.
mikemarsh 1mo ago
There's no reducing reliance on "other people", especially when embracing digital technology; in every realistic scenario you become tethered to the people in charge of Big Tech and all that entails, in Stallman-esque fantasy-land you're still relying on other open source maintainers. In both cases you're reliant on other people's supply chains to get the hardware all of this stuff relies on. As far as valuing some abstract ideal (global community) over the people actually in your life right now (local community), I guess all I can say is I can't see that working out well long-term, and hope you can find at least a few people to connect with now.