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by calibraxis 11y ago
Do you want evidence of him... shivving someone? (But then again, how is stabbing someone with a knife relevant to a talk's quality?) (But then again, how is a talk's quality relevant to free expression of views?) Professional con
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Moldbug's political views aren't the issue, it's his political action . He has a record of going to conferences and advocating racism: working to exclude. And one of Lambdaconf's sponsors is a racist political blog, whi
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by calibraxis 11y ago
The Lambdaconf guy who mindbogglingly rejects social media for being "fickle, highly emotional, and irrational" has no idea about free speech. Moldbug has a record of going to professional confs and advocating racism. (Working to
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It's been under ruthless attack by the world's most militant nation, which forces Guantanamo Bay there and demands other nations besiege it with sanctions. Due to its disobedience, it nevertheless does unusually well all things co
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by calibraxis 11y ago
The Mohists seem very appropriate to HN: "The Mohists, egalitarian rationalists whose social base seems to have been urban artisans, not only were philosophically opposed to war and militarism, but organized battalions of military eng
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Yes, many choose wageslavery & their species' destruction, instead of freedom & direct action. I've known climate-change deniers. They hold on to their political-economic religion as it literally destroys their world. And
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Oh god yes. At one company, I'd see an article trending on HN and think, "Oh fuck, some suck-up's gonna email to everyone, and the CTO will publicly pat him on the head for confirming his prejudices."
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by calibraxis 11y ago
Definitely good advice. Corporations are often not structured for you to have an impact outside your tunnel: they're too top-down. (Of course, many workers internalized that during school, which was much the same, so they seem happy wi
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Why? It's a non-sequitur. Neil Degrasse Tyson said "the natural world". IQ tests are fleeting human-made constructs which have nothing to do with laws of the universe. And to talk of "scientific consensus" regarding
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> we don't let the target of their lies speak anywhere Speaking of "lies": not inviting him to a private event != not letting him speak "anywhere". (Furthermore, this response came 9 minutes after mine, and carri
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by calibraxis 11y ago
At least StrangeLoop's clearly vindicated now. Unlike Lambdaconf, they didn't stoop to getting cash from KKK-types like ( https://twitter.com/clarkhat/status/682022959830151168 ): Neil deGrasse Tyson: &q
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by calibraxis 11y ago
The author decided not to go. In other news (of the weird), Lambdaconf now promotes this political blog which sponsors them: https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/716427389350359040
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BTW, here's Merton's explanation [pdf]: ( http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5110/merton_... )
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Typically, radicals & reformists work in concert. The problem is, when the reformists sell out the radicals (as with progressive Democrats and Occupy.)
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Interesting, time to research Robert K. Merton to understand deeper: "The world is broken, and money always wins. [...] I would like to reference Robert K. Merton, the founder of sociology of science. He studied ethos of research comm
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by calibraxis 11y ago
Good article! We're all racists to some extent; that is, if your society's racist, you'll have to internalize its bizarre logic in order to function. (It's like sexism; I'd better know how not to transgress gender d
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That was a tiny quote from an evidence-laden argument. Google Books sometimes doesn't show this in incognito mode: ( https://books.google.com/books?id=99E4aIjgryoC&pg=PA183&lpg=... ) The reason why soundbites win
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> Like democracy and free speech, it is a Western concept that simply isn’t welcome here. Ironic propaganda. Analyzing soundbites requires slightly verbose context: "Why do conservatives insist that democracy was invented in ancien
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When faced with abusers [1], it may be mentally healthiest to briefly indulge in slightly-unpleasant words like: "Rather than mislead everyone..." Why? Abuse stays with people during the day, and it is better to ever-so-slightly r
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by calibraxis 11y ago
Nice that you skipped past where Chomsky explicitly recommends we "support" PKK (and incidentally is for delisting): Chomsky: They’re killing Yazidis. So what do you do? You support the people who are saving the Yazidis. Who happ
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Irony: I recall your recent post telling everyone to read Chomsky. He recommends supporting and de-listing PKK too! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbkqk5WLbLs )
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Rather than mislead everyone, why not quote what exactly you disagree with, and offer evidence? - "How could Isis be eliminated? In the region, everyone knows. All it would really take would be to unleash the largely Kurdish forces of
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If EU were decent, they'd delist Erdogan's enemy the PKK from the terrorist list. The PKK could teach the EU how to improve European society: ( http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/30/opinions/rojava-k
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Almost no one else on this thread cited sources. Whereas 0xFFC mentioned excellent sources anyone can check out to improve their knowledge. (Like for any other field.) The poster said, "I don't have time to respond for all of that
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No, they had an entirely correct response. The context is a country which notoriously acts with unusual violence against its Black population, since its "founding fathers", up to basically being a police state as far as many Black
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These are among the most common anarchism 101 questions. FAQs exist; why not google for yourself? (Or speaking of capitalism, pay someone to educate you rather than expect uncompensated labor. I've done enough unpaid work resulting fro
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(Quick clarification: "advanced future society" is misleading. For instance, consider primitivists.)
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Communist "state" is an oxymoron: "the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state." ( https
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> I see you're taking the least charitable one, i.e., "everyone let it slide." That interpretation is incorrect. People stopped talking to him. Good, because I used your interpretation: silence. You silently enabled a wh
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It's good to be cautious when people say they believe in "democracy" or "communism". (Does democracy mean killing people for billionaires and their 4-year king? Serious democracy proponents must say things like &quo

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