techostritch

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by techostritch 2y ago
> especially in tech circles, which historically stood for liberal (progressive/inclusive) values. Seems pretty clear that maybe history wasn’t what we thought, seems more like tech has historically stood for self-interest, which ha
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by techostritch 2y ago
This is all based on the idea of the Trump they’ve made up for themselves in their mind, the less he’s actually reported in or vocal, the less there’s a chance for a schism especially among moderate voters voting party line. I mean, very pl
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by techostritch 2y ago
> Those who like him, love him. Those who don’t despise him. I doubt dosage matters. This is interesting I have not found this at all. For all the polarization we talk about it seems there’s lots of disagreement in the parties, look at t
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by techostritch 2y ago
One thing about Trump specifically is that he’s a bit too much to take in large doses, I wonder if social media banning Trump actually led to an improvement in his popularity. Definitely another argument in favor of looser restrictions on
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I’m glad classical music has done this for you. I’ve always heard of people appreciating the an ability of music to tell a story, and I’ve wondered if it would make my music better if I used a story as inspiration, and maybe this is the po
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I had to second guess myself because I don’t know if I really know what cultured means, but Apparently the dictionary definition of the word cultured is “produced under artificial conditions” so I would say I agree with you. Can’t argue wi
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by techostritch 2y ago
I’m curious why it makes you sad? I feel exactly the opposite. Dancing is an old cultural tradition that has meditative and spiritual qualities. What about that is cultural nihilism. Or maybe I just don’t think cultural nihilism is a ba
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They didn’t mention whether or not Tesla has made up for the difference in other states.
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by techostritch 2y ago
There’s a few different goals of advertising but with near 100% name recognition, is this going to change anyone’s mind? Do you really want to link Trump’s name, someone famous for seeming like an outsider with big business?
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by techostritch 2y ago
Tesla is an AI company right? Not an electric car company, the 2024 Republican platform explicitly calls out support of AI. Will the MAGA ticket really hurt Tesla electric cars more than Musk already has? If he’s pivoting away from cars,
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by techostritch 2y ago
Companies taking very public stands for one political candidate or another is probably not a great evolution in our polarization.
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by techostritch 2y ago
I always feel like this question begs this elitist perspective on progress and art. I don’t hate classical music, but I also don’t deify it. Classical jazz, other forms of “art” music, they’re great, and maybe they do reflect some kind of
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by techostritch 2y ago
This makes me wonder, are there use cases for GenAI that are under threat from regulation? Like is there some useful case that everyone is sitting on (Or maybe it’s coming) because it’s in danger to regulation?
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by techostritch 2y ago
I mean frankly because if you have billions of dollars and want power now / in your lifetime, grassroots efforts to change the political system is not an efficient way. Also, isn’t. Marc Andreesen one of the Silicon Valley folks in fav
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by techostritch 2y ago
There’s this old fivethirtyeight article that says that people love their political parties until they actually do anything, that once you start turning ideas into policy, people have something tangible to evaluate you on, and they do so ha
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Maybe he is Siri!
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by techostritch 2y ago
A MAGA style government will let MAGA protest more freely for sure.
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The mechanics no. I’m like very intentionally trying not to be an extremist about this, yes I did get some value out of school but relatively disproportionate to the effort I put in.
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by techostritch 2y ago
Is there anyone that is pro monarchy/authoritarianism that is also pro-monarchy authoritarianism if someone who doesn’t have the same values as them are in charge? Like is Peter Thiel pro monarchy if AOC is the monarch?
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by techostritch 2y ago
I don’t know, I don’t know what other people think, I do know what I think, and I don’t think I would describe it as uncritical. What makes you assume it’s uncritical?
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by techostritch 2y ago
Yes, I’ve heard the term Christo-fascist thrown around recently, as I said most recently from Joe Rogan, I probably wouldn’t use the term had I not heard it thrown about recently but the point isn’t really the term. There is definitely a c
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I dunno? Matt Walsh is an open ChristoFascist and Even Joe Rogan mentioned that he was worried about it harkening back to the George Bush days, part of my point was less that I though an extreme thing would happen and more that of the extre
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by techostritch 2y ago
We’ll see what happens, I don’t think there’s enough unity among Republicans for a coherent libertarian agenda to actually get enacted, more likely a Christo-fascist one, but I lean more libertarian as I get older, so despite my extreme ske
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I’m mixed, I definetly wouldn’t home school my kids and it doesn’t seem scalable and I do think there’s value in a population having a shared identity from education, but, at least from my own experience I suspect my kids will have their mo
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I’m probably anti-big tech but what will pro crypto bring us? Convince me that the deregulation of the Trump/Vance administration won’t bring about the next 2008
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I feel really weird about education, the only value I think I’ve ever gotten in education is tangential (social, inspirational) which I think many people say is the primary value, but when it comes to actually work skills Im mostly self tau
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This is circular, how do you propose making school about that? If you’re only goal is to maximize the folks who like to obey authority then great, and maybe that’s all you care to do, and maybe you don’t care about losing the kids who don’
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by techostritch 2y ago
It all depends on what they do, Republicans want to make big change, big change in an economy this size will be disruptive, there will be winners and losers across the political spectrum, and losers for some groups will mean financial devas
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You think that Big Tech is donating big to Republicans because of identity politics?
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Admittedly I think it’s really hard to piece apart all of the different conservative coalitions. There are vocal Republican influencers who talk about ending no fault divorce, ending the department of education banning abortion, ending soci

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