Obsidian
1yr ago
I'm not worried about enabling trolls, I'm worried about enabling larpers. There are a number of them on the site already, but as of right now they're not too hard to pick out from the crowd.
Obsidian
1yr ago
Yes, the concept of passing is contradictory with many other trans related concepts but it's often not seen because the whole of the trans movement is half dozen totally incompatible frameworks glued together while every tries their best to ignore the seams.
Either this is self-evident, in which case why post it? Or it's not, and you ought to unfold.
Obsidian
4mo ago
I don't think technocracy is once-in-a-generation hard, I just think our democracies are optimizing for something entirely incompatible
Obsidian
1yr ago
It comes down to relative power. If you can make a weapon that lets any idiot (or, eventually, no idiot) destroy a main battle tank unassisted, then you don't need to worry very much about military training when facing tanks. Repeat mutatis mutandis for infantry, planes, drones, etc.
My take is that the West - including Turkey - is providing weapons to Ukraine that are decisively superior to what Russia is fielding.
Obsidian
1yr ago
This is a fully general prediction for any technology.
Yes, it is in fact a political philosophy of technology. I'm still chasing literature support and context for it to be better able to communicate it, but at this point I'm pretty confident in it.
Obsidian
3mo ago
It also makes such posts cattier, which is a disincentive in and of itself.
Obsidian
3mo ago
I’d say what distinguished the forum originally was more a commitment to free speech than to civility, though it had both of course.
In my mod days we experimented with keeping to a particular Overton window, above and beyond what was required to continue existing on reddit, in order to keep posters broadly comfortable. Drawing the line was frustrating and arbitrary and I hated doing it. Stuff like, don't insist on conspicuously misgendering trans posters, and don't lay 100% of the blame for any given issue on Mexicans/Jews/whatever. In any given specific situation we could have reasonably ruled in either direction, but if we'd radically committed to either free speech or civility the moderation would have become exploitable and the forum would have blown up.
Obsidian
4mo ago
I, a frog, would wish to team up with you on a peaceable separation campaign.
Federalists on either side are wretched people.
Funny, I very much experienced the "spiritual" aspects as cheap filler. They definitely set an intriguing mood, but they didn't populate it with a message.
It's vanishingly rare that we see spirituality or mysticism well done in sci-fi. The Starcraft II single-player campaign was another otherwise-decent story that was held back by poorly engaging with this. I just don't think most sci-fi writers have a connection with the divine. And godly men don't write sci-fi, mostly they write about the world they belong to.
I've been thinking that BSG with the "spiritual" bits expunged would be a much greater show. Though I'm sure something else would jump out as begging to be cut.
Obsidian
4mo ago
The devs quit way too early on that one. The learning curve is all over the place, and the horror effect lasts maybe one hour. Shame, it's such a cool game.
Obsidian
5mo ago
@FCfromSSC origin story is iconic. I relate to the terror and depression of cancellation, but I could never put it down like you did. I'd say "go on The Bailey" but that'd be missing the point.
Obsidian
1yr ago
Meditation helps. Participating to a men's group helps. Doing cool shit with people irl helps.
Obsidian
1yr ago
This is 1000% dependent on your social context. As a francophone in Montreal I don't expect to have to abide by any peer-requested COVID restriction measures for the rest of my life, that's just not where the meta is. So it means nothing if I say that I would decline any and all requests, since anyone who made that request would just be marking themselves as not worth dealing with.
Top take. I'm glad you posted this.
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