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Writer, software person, armchair anthropologist, dilettante. All genders, all political opinions welcome. Book: https://amzn.com/0190495995/ 

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    1. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Sep 15
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      Patri Friedman Retweeted Kate Manne

      Wait, so if Pablo Escobar wanted to give $1M to help Bill Gates end disease in Africa, then for Gates to accept the money would be "a breathtaking betrayal" of Escobar's murder victims? How does that make any sense?https://twitter.com/kate_manne/status/1170813110535512066 …

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      Kate Manne @kate_manne
      Lessig appears to have not the slightest sense--none whatsoever--of what a breathtaking betrayal to Jeffrey Epstein's victims Ito's taking that money was and remains. Instead, he draws dubious moral equivalences, and wrings his hands for people in the Media Lab. It's astonishing.
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    2. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Sep 15
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      This is basically arguing that when a rich person does horrible things, it is essential that their heirs get all their money, and horrible for any charities to get it instead. Why are people so obsessed with preserving rich scumbags' estates for their heirs?

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    3. Kyle Matkat‏ @KyleMatkat Sep 15
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      Replying to @patrissimo @ESYudkowsky

      Come on guys... accepting donations from Epstein won him social influence and easier access to victims. Seriously, if you do not understand this you should not be talking about this issue.

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    4. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Sep 15
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      Replying to @KyleMatkat @ESYudkowsky

      Social influence, sure. But if you think you get access to child sex trafficking by hanging out at the MIT Media Lab...you have a very very strange and wrong impression of the MIT Media Lab.

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    5. Kyle Matkat‏ @KyleMatkat Sep 15
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      Replying to @patrissimo @ESYudkowsky

      For fuck's sake dude. It's the social influence itself that's the issue and leads to easier access to victims. Never thought in a million years I'd have to spell that out...

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    6. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Sep 15
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      Replying to @KyleMatkat @ESYudkowsky

      You have not yet proposed a plausible mechanism by which being more popular at MIT helps someone find child prostitutes/slaves. I think those worlds are completely disconnected. (Unless by victims you mean participants, like Bill Clinton.)

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      Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Sep 15
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      Replying to @patrissimo @KyleMatkat

      I’m pretty sympathetic to your original tweet Patri, but think Kyle has it right w/r/t influence ⟶ greater ability to do harm. Basically any form of power, even soft/social influence, makes it easier for a person to do what he wants.

      9:59 PM - 15 Sep 2019
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        1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Sep 15
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          Replying to @KevinSimler @patrissimo @KyleMatkat

          Re abuse in particular, Meredith Patterson paints a compelling picture of how abusers use influence within a social graph to keep victims (and their would-be allies) from coordinating with each other:https://status451.com/2016/08/09/too-late-for-the-pebbles-to-vote-part-1/ …

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