kill-procrustes

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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   There's a line from a show I like: "I figure there are always going to be reasons not to do something. If you really want to do it, then you have to do it." It sound simplistic but honestly, this happens in life. I feel for t
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   I consider them a scapegoat in the sense that they're sort of a catchall target for negative feelings about these problems. I also think they're not a scapegoat insofar as they're responsible for their actual bad practices. I
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   I'm not suggesting "blaming" ourselves, per se. Sitting around and wallowing in our own guilt won't accomplish anything. But I do think we should accept that our own nature is part of what has led to this and be honest a
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   I'm no fan of Facebook, and I think they've made a lot of unethical decisions, but I also feel like they're becoming this massive scapegoat for the social discomfort caused by the giant mirror that information technology has
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   This is a classic problem of "who decides?" Unlike malware, lots of things initially written off as misinformation turn out to be true. I'm not going to argue that YouTube doesn't have a legal right to do what they'
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   I'm pretty sure being critical of efforts to censor information is part of the hacker ethos ("information should be free"). I think this is actually why the Twitter approach ("some or all of this tweet is disputed")
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   This is a really underrated point. This whole site is really "tech industry news" with some hacking sprinkled in, but its name at least is based on the idea of the hacker ethos. That whole thing about decentralization, distrusting
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   This is the exact same thing as applying a label. Even if someone who disagrees with you does "need to grow," telling them that is a pretty surefire way to get them to write you off. If you actually want to convince and persuade p
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   by kill-procrustes 6y ago

   I was just discussing this thread with a friend of mine and we agreed on the same thing. Taleb has a line about college being the closest thing to a natural social state in the Western world. I think our brains feel comfortable in some sort
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    by kill-procrustes 6y ago

    That's pretty much a perfect summation of the theory of evolution.