I wish I could write a tenth as well as @slatestarcodex. I have no idea what the upshot of this is, but it’s so uplifting I’m sure it’s true.https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/08/gay-rites-are-civil-rites/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness @slatestarcodex
You found this uplifting? I read this as "here is the machine that eats values. its teeth are pressing down."
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Replying to @EnyeWord @slatestarcodex
I had no idea what the point was. It sounded good though.
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Replying to @Meaningness @slatestarcodex
The man knows how to write a good blog post!
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Replying to @EnyeWord @slatestarcodex
Well it’s very funny and cute… I just re-read it, and I still don’t get the point. Probably my own limitation. Which thing did you see as a machine that eats which values?
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Hmm, going through the comments, it’s clear that different people interpreted the post as saying opposite (or at least very various) things (and then got upset with each other). Maybe it has no broader point, and is just remarking on an amusing analogy.
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Replying to @Meaningness @slatestarcodex
To be clear, I don't think the post itself is endorsing anything so much as noticing something, but the thing it describes is a pattern in which old values are replaced by new values (with some of the less-contingent old values coming along for the ride). This can be scary.
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Oh. Well, I took it as saying (if anything) the opposite: that the pattern is that the new values (yay gay sex!) are replaced by old values (yay capitalism, nuclear families, etc).
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