Start: encouraging ppl to code is evil End: "programming will be indispensable part of active citizenship" https://aeon.co/ideas/coding-is-not-fun-it-s-technically-and-ethically-complex …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
If just anyone could code, lots of bad people would. It’s very important that all coding be supervised by just, moral people
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Replying to @Meaningness
important to note this is not the initial line of argument, which is about competence at an important diff task (like surgery)
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
What do you make of that? (Seems author didn’t have a clear idea in mind, at least)
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Replying to @Meaningness
there's democratic/elitist spectrum on both technical and moral dimensions laid out
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @Meaningness
argument is that SV is currently too technically democratic and too morally elitist but moral elitism derives from tech elitism
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @Meaningness
basically a bunch of individual components that make sense but don't cohere, and aren't followed to unpopular conclusions
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
Hmm. Have now read three times, with increasing attention. Still can’t make any sense of it.
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Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian
Suspect that this is a failed experiment in virtue-signaling entrepreneurship.
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I.e. an attempt to come up with a new argument that capitalism is bad—massive status!!!—but the pieces didn’t fit together.
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