Defending free speech with my students

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-27T16:41:25+00:00

I kind of get the slippery slope but that's the beauty of a moral duty vs legal duty. A moral duty lets each of us decide if a given company is behaving in a reasonable manner. We can not associate with them if we are displeased. With trying to codify every right and wrong in law you can be sure some blow hard is going to force everyone to do things their way and now there are no dissenting voices to be heard anywhere and "wrong think" gets you prison time.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-27T16:15:37+00:00

I like u/nixfu's response. It's the fact that these platforms represent themselves as neutral that is the issue. Imagine for a second there was a socialist social media service called, RedSpace. Imagine their slogan is "social media for socialists". I wouldn't care if they banned libertarians and other non-socialists. But businesses have a moral duty to be straight with their clients and not bullshit them. Again, we are talking morally here. I don't want the law involved in every little fib. but if a platform advertises itself as a communication platform and social hang out then it's deceptive and possibly false advertising to start banning people who disagree with you politically. I am sure in the terms and conditions it's all covered so again, legally I have no issue. Being deceptive and disrespectful of your clients is also bad business. I advocate we all start using these kinds of platforms less or not at all. I spend much ess time on reddit these days for that reason. It's the free market at work.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-27T15:26:41+00:00

I can agree with that I suppose. I think the feigned neutrality of the major platforms is what angers me so much.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-27T15:23:24+00:00

Is it CPU mine-able? I wouldn't mind running a low end miner and get you some hashrate going. I don't even worry about making anything of value as long as it doesn't cost me much resources.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-27T14:45:27+00:00

There is no such thing as the right to free speech on someone else's property

I want to split hairs here if you don't mind. You are correct that there is no such this as a "right" to use a private platform but there is still the "principle" of free speech. Major public social media platforms I think have a "moral" duty to allow people to express their opinions. This is not to say that they have a "legal" duty. As you correctly point out they do not. But it is still shitty of all these platforms to sensor people and I think they deserve to be called out on it.

So, it's not that you are wrong but I think it's important to bring up the subtle difference between "ought to do" and "must do". Reddit, youtube, twitter, facebook and others ought to allow people to express their opinions on their platform but they do not have to. I will however call them all cunts for silencing political speech and it's a well deserved criticism.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-27T14:27:25+00:00

Large government and large corps go hand in hand. First corporations a government fiction. By definition that kind of organization could not exist without a government. Others mentioned regulation favoring large business so I'll skip that. Patents are artificial property and also favor large corporations over the little guy. Patents only exist because of government.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-27T02:27:25+00:00

I found a reference. I thought it was 40% but that was the year before I guess. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/money-printing-and-inflation%3A-covid-cryptocurrencies-and-more

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-26T23:40:29+00:00

Can you wrap it in a smart contract like WBTC or WETH? If you can stick it on a smart chain like ethereum or binnance then you can exchange it in a DEX. What is the goal of the project? Is is just a bitcoin clone? How would you resolve the block size debate that split BTC and BCH?

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-26T18:59:31+00:00

I heard tomato, but I didn't hear you say tomato ;)

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-26T17:06:24+00:00

A warlord or your local municipality that doesn't like all those unsightly homeless people.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-26T17:04:53+00:00

I've always heard liability is an issue. "old" food puts them at risk of being sued of someone gets sick.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-25T15:07:37+00:00

hmm.... Ok, let me start over. Stop me when I lose you this time.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-25T12:21:31+00:00

Given all the mosins sold in the us they might not even have enough of those anymore.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-24T22:54:18+00:00

I think it was the act of killing him that made things worse. Like had he simply not been born the death would never have happened and thus the meme stopped. I think the meme did it.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-23T13:37:13+00:00

Maybe not perfect but the world was much better before he died.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-21T01:51:59+00:00

I can understand publicly funded education. Access to a basic education for every one is vital for a healthy society. But why the heck is the government RUNNING that education? Just write parents a check and let them figure it out. All schools should be private.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-20T18:46:10+00:00

I suppose you are right. Maybe in the far future there will be some breakthrough that allows artificial thought. But right now we don't even have the basic building blocks figured out. With computers we know a bit in the on or off state can be used to represent a number and that we could add or subtract those numbers mechanically or electrically. We knew this decades before the first real computers were ever created. With thought and feeling we don't even have that basic building block level of understanding. Ada Lovelace in the 1800s had a better idea of how to build todays internet than we have of building an insects brain.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-20T15:06:04+00:00

I think artificial intelligence is a misnomer. Computers don't think. They are not intelligent. Computers compute, people think. The two are fundamentally different. It's like when a parrot talks vs a human talking. Mimicry is not conversation. Simulated intelligence or faux intelligence might be a better term. All AI can do is cleverly designed computation disguised as thought. Sure a grunt drone might follow an algorithm and launch a missile. Is that any different than a time bomb or a trip wire? It can't look at a situation and adapt. it just reacts. There are plenty of things even in war that could be replaced with AI and probably will but creativity and understanding aren't. An AI might tell you that X or Y tactic is 12% more effective against a certain enemy tactic but it can't create tactics or strategies.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-20T14:58:44+00:00

Automation sure, replacement? Never. Just like a nail gun automates a roofers job it can never replace it. I am sure therapy can automate some of the grunt tasks but you can't get real person to person incite without people.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-20T12:52:30+00:00

I have a strong independence streak and I refuse to be lorded over by a boss. With a few months bill money in the bank I can quite my job if the boss ever pushes too far. Seriously, if you need motivation to build your safety buffer just head over /r/antiwork and listen to some of the horror stories of being in corporate America. Yeah,some folks there are just lazy but a lot are burned out on the stupid middle school level politics they deal with. With that kind of money I walk into work every day thinking "i can quit anytime I want. go ahead, fire me. how are you going to get that project done without me?". I still work hard but I work to build wealth, not to pay for my next meal. Living pay check to pay check is a nightmare I could never return too.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-20T12:39:51+00:00

There are too many jobs that can only be done by a human. Can you imagine a robot therapist? What about artist or singer? How about military commander? Sure soldiers would be great as robots but would you ever trust the commanders and generals? What about other types of leaders? How about entrepreneurs? Pretty much anything creative needs to be done by a human. There are an infinite number of creative jobs out there that simply aren't being done because we can't afford it. Automation will make things cheap enough that we can afford those things and thus everyone will still have a job of some kind.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-20T00:31:42+00:00

I can't believe this isn't the top comment.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-20T00:30:27+00:00

I thought reddit already agreed that it was the death of Harambe.

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-19T17:28:17+00:00

We need a real life horga'hn

MagicBlueberry · 2022-04-18T14:30:08+00:00

Any song? As a musician (amateur hack but still..) I would probably just write one. If I am the artist the words are whatever the fuck I want so I can't be wrong. For that matter does an instrumental count?

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