AfterHIA

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by AfterHIA 1y ago
Great post mc32 (I hope you're a Wayne Kramer fan!) This private-public tyranny that's going on right now. The FCC can't directly tell Kimmel, "you can't say that" they can say, "you may have violated this
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Perhaps and if you have some kind of monopoly than definitely. Things beings, "yours" isn't some fundamental part of the human condition. CEOs serve their employees and shareholders and the ethics of the business space they o
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Without being crude I think they stopped, "thinking about that means" in any positive sense a long time ago. Cultures of discourse and criticism are never good for the powerful. The goal is to create a culture when anyone can say
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This. Even if we have concrete protections in our society it takes a society of people committed to a common democratic cause and common functional prosperity that prevents there from being abuses of the right to speak and so on (..) This i
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
You use terms (other as well) like, "own, is the CEO of, and the owner of" and this speaks to the ironically illiberal shift we've seen in contemporary politics. Historically one needed to justify, "why" some person
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
The crux of this is a shift in context (φρόνησις) where-in entities like marketing companies or video hosting platforms are treated like moral agents which act in the same manner as individuals. We can overcome this dilemma by clarifying th
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
Bingo. This is Adam Smith's whole point in the second half of, "Wealth Of Nations" that nobody bothers to read in lieu of the sentiments of the Cato Institute and the various Adam Smith societies. Nations produce, "kinds
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There's a literal world of literature both contemporary and classical which points to the idea that concentrations of power in politics and concentrations of wealth and power in industry aren't dissimilar. I think there are limits
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Another way of articulating this: "concentrations of power and wealth should not determine the speech or political sentiments of the many." My fear is that this is incredibly uncontroversial this is until it's not-- when push
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I feel that this is the right approach-- the liability and toxicity of the platforms isn't due to them being communication platforms it's because in most practical or technical ways they are not: they are deliberate behavior modif
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I 100% agree with your sentiment here Jensson but in Googling, "common carrier law" what I get are the sets of laws governing transportation services liability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier Is
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I might not be a strange loop but I am indeed strange.
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This is the kind of evolved computer science that was going on when I was a teenager. Have an upvote eig! My addition: it's funny for how much speculation we get in the, "hard cognitive science" (RIP) that in lieu of the big
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
You're one of those cats that provides a subtle reminder that Dr. Alan Kay (invented the tablet/Xerox ALTO interface) was first a biologist. Thank you for the enlightened smalltalk! (;3)
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The camel's back is breaking and we're already half way to right wing populist authoritarianism. Meaningful piecemeal reform is necessary but will take decades. We need a Carnation moment. People need to feel like they have a mean
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I know mate I was just razzin' you. Rave on.
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It's not a myth. This is a report from the RAND Corporation which is more than reputable which details the the effects of a massive wealth transfer that's been occurring since the early 1970's. With all due respect you haven&
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Wah, wah, wah brainwashed member of the Adam Smith Society that never actually read, "Nations" obviously chiming in. The American people are entitled to what was taken from them-- competent public education, accessible higher educ
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
If you compare our predecessor Turing to people like Musk or Bezos ever again I'll have you chemically castrated.
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Massive Nelson fan here. My question right now is knowing that Ted's moved from, "the alt Internet" to a, "really bitchin' writing tool" what's the current state of development? What's Christina Engel
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
This isn't an attack pal but I love that we have a generation of young men that are willing to sell all of their principles and buy into the suburbanite cult just right after, "getting it" after starting a family. I can appre
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
There really needs to be a Second American Revolution. It should be bloodless and as simple as 90% of the country showing up to take back the wealth that was stolen from the middle classes during the neoliberal assault. The popular momentum
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You read like Alan Kay's Quora and for that I salute you comrade.
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"Gemini write me a paper in the style of Blood Meridian about Ribosomal DNA's function in cell respiration."
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This is great; I don't play video games as an adult but I got to have my 4 seconds of fun and it was all I needed. Top form aanthony!
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I think I'll have a nice Stafford Beer and take this article in again. Great post notmysql_! Cybernetics is always relevant.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface The design methodology goes way back. If you're in the Bay Area go to the Computer History Museum and inquire with a Mr. Ted Nelson. People have been singing this
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This is the reaction from the part of the political consciousness that just realized it/its children are not safe anywhere. They're going to continue to use this as a justification for retaliation. You have to realize that the cor
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
The design is totally stolen from Ubiquity. I love Ubiquity so I'm not complaining but the Raskin clan should get some credit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox)
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This is some good Xerox trivia. Thanks for sharing royskee.

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