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My personal guidelines for dealing with people on social media: Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know. "The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice." Once again, Ted Chiang is a must-read on the rise of A.I. and the dangers of runaway capitalism. https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey "Today, we find ourselves in a situation in which technology has become conflated with capitalism, which has in turn become conflated with the very notion of progress. If you try to criticize capitalism, you are accused of opposing both technology and progress. But what does progress even mean, if it doesn’t include better lives for people who work?"
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 *stops googling non-trivial information about the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow* The eight most wonderful words you can say on the internet: " I don't know enough to have an opinion."
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@charliejane let this be a reminder that i have to read a lot of philosophy books @charliejane the amount of pushback to "accepting that I have limits in my expertise and don't actually know everything" here is really annoying, I'm glad that resistance to basic epistemic humility really is not reflected in the circles I hang out in lol Imagine if there were people who kept saying, "I'm not homophobic, but I think gay men should be kept out of locker rooms so they don't assault straight men. And I also think gays and lesbians shouldn't be allowed to marry because that takes away from from straight marriages. Also I think they're converting the youth. Still, I support gays' right to exist." And the mainstream press was like, "SEE? They're not homophobic. They even said so." That's where we are now with trans people.
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@charliejane I want to get my gender removed from my birth certificate, go down to North Carolina, and walk around a mall and ask which bathroom I have to use. I had a chat with someone about gun control and he said “well criminals break the law so why do we need to more laws restricting firearms? After all they won’t be followed” I then asked him “why have laws restricting bathroom access? After all sexual predators will ignore the law?” People are just too dumb  @charliejane the joke is that this is also happening with gay people in the exact way you describe
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@charliejane good list
@charliejane These are really good, simple rules. We should all keep these in mind. Thanks! 💖
@charliejane Especially that last one is important.
Why would you stick with people who don't appear to be friendly to you? Surely you get enough negativity already?