wilsocr88

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by wilsocr88 5y ago
We should be extremely slow to "universally condemn" things, though. Free speech requires that universal condemnation is very difficult to reach. The reality of a free society is that we will be confronted with ideas that differ f
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
What we mean is when groups of loud activists pile onto a wrongthinker en masse and demand that the person's life and livelihood be destroyed, or else engage in targeted harassment campaigns, all for the crime of having a different vie
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
I think it all stems from this idea that we can't be made uncomfortable ever, or we are a victim. The whole point of colleges and universities was to be confronted with some very uncomfortable ideas and to argue your position on them.
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
Yep. There is no freedom of speech unless the most batshit insane ideas can see the light, be understood truthfully, and criticized freely. And, I'd add: we need to respect the rights of the crazies to speak their mind. Yes, respect.
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
That is truly unfortunate to read. Those people are not serious about free speech; they are deeply hostile to it. If they were serious about free speech, they would welcome the criticism. In my experience, it's not the criticism that f
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
In my experience, the "anti-free speech" things they complain about are generally the actions taken by powerful private institutions (PayPal cutting people off, complete bans from the Social Media town square) that prevent individ
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
Free speech exists to prevent "nasty behavior". The whole point is that you speak your mind instead of getting violent. The whole idea is to invite criticism for "nasty behavior," and to allow everyone to see why that be
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
The point of the bit about Western Europe was to point out that hate crime laws in practice achieve the exact opposite of their intended goal: They make societies more bigoted. The US, which doesn't legislate against hate speech, has l
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by wilsocr88 5y ago
No, it's precisely the other way around. The XKCD comic attempts to reframe one of the most important philosophical foundations of democracy as somehow legally unsound, or otherwise completely dismissable when it comes to ideas that ar
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Nu-Bullying Breeds Extremist Violence – Trolling Is the New Punk(craigwritescode.medium.com)
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The Media/Tech Complex Takes Billions from China(craigwritescode.medium.com)
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Covid-19 Revealed a United and Monolithic Media/Tech Complex(craigwritescode.medium.com)
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Emacs was released in 1985. That's 36 years ago. Half of that is 18. What am I missing?
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
I think you're noticing the autoimmune reaction of a corrupt central bank to the first real competition it has ever received. There are many private institutions in the US experiencing similar growing pains.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
"Central" is the opposite of good practice in the IT world. So, in context, I guess this doesn't really surprise me.
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Usable, or Pretty?(uxdesign.cc)
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Slate Star Codex isn’t the first or last media usurper to be publicly shamed(craigwritescode.medium.com)
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
The fraud Facebook habitually engages in is one thing. The psychological effects of their apps on their users is another. Machine learning gears the content toward what spikes emotion in the moment. Social media is the new cigarettes.
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The Four UI Elements of the Apocalypse(craigwritescode.medium.com)
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Great points. I suppose, in the end, that social media are like any mind-altering substance. But, it seems to me that we're not fully aware of just how "mind-altering" they really are. There are certain things that are so add
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Wow, that's discouraging. I thought the barrier to entry would mean better content across the board. But, I suppose that's the difference between a falsely erected barrier to make it seem more special and exclusive, and technical
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
I feel out of the loop for never having read this guy's work before this faux-outrage-turned-scandal, but everything I'm reading of his is great. He's focused, honest, and straightforward, and you can tell her really lets his
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“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”(craigwritescode.medium.com)
737 points by wilsocr88 6y ago|336 comments
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Am I overreaching, or am I trying to warn the West against allowing resentment-based ideology to take hold? Read about Soviet dekulakization, and ponder how that could've happened. It started with "this whole society, the shoulder
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
The point is that Communists should be exactly as bad in the collective unconscious as Nazis, and it is literally dangerous that this is not the case. Communism is considered by many people to be something that sorta had some okay ideas but
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
The purpose of stories like this seems to be to lay a groundwork of "facts" that, when worded a certain way in a headline, give the appearance of an underlying bed of evidence which slants toward leftist issues at best, and flat-o
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
It's a pretty huge problem: How do we move forward or know how to act or what to do if we can't get any unfiltered and unbiased factual information whatsoever?
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
I think leftists replaced actual arguments with sarcasm sometime around 2010.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
I agree with this on principle, but I just can't shake the feeling that this sort of conveniently "incidentally" leftist NPR story is slanted, and therefor untrustworthy. I've been gaslit by too much media for too long t
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Partially, but that's a very low-res version of what I mean. Drilling a resentment-based ideology into the minds of young people, and inundating universities with it, is the most destructive part of our epoch. Universities are either d

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