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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖

      1/ this (specifically: the distinction between CONSENT and WISDOM or perhaps UTILITY) ties into a topic that @LibertyFarmNH and I were discussing over lunch:https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1292869094765498369 …

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       🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖 @sonyasupposedly
      Lots of talk about age gaps. I have something to contribute here! My last long-term relationship before my now-husband was me, 18-20, dating a 35-37 year old (off and on for a couple of years). Was this emotionally healthy? Not at all. Did I consent? Absolutely.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

      2/ some tribes (gray, mostly) are comfortable with there being separate magisteria (e.g. moral vs immoral, and also legal vs illegal) while other tribes (red, blue) get very upset by this and want to simplify everything down to * legal AND good * bad AND illegal

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

      3/ Red wants to make it illegal to, I dunno, take your pick: burn the flag, sleep around, etc. Blue wants to make it illegal to be racist, say sexist things, hurt someone's feelings, etc.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

      4/ One could take this argument off in a Kegan levels direction: maybe 3 wants to simplify things, and 5 understands that you need separate systems at separate times, for distinct purposes. But that's not the direction I want to go.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

      5/ I was thinking more of a Claude Shannon perspective (information theory). Morality-is-legality is a 1 bit system, and is capable of cleaving the universe into two realms: good and bad.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

      6/ morality-vs-legality is a 2-bit system, and cleaves the universe into 4 segments. Picture a venn diagram with the circles labeled "moral?" and "legal?" Four distinct regions.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

      7/ There's a lot more nuance in policy when you have four regions. E.g. torture and a ticking atomic bomb. Legality sets incentives. If you legalize torture because of the ticking bomb scenario, you have incentivized torture at all times and places.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

          8/ Understanding that morality != legality means that you can keep something illegal even if you want it to happen on ultra rare occasions...because the alternative is to incentivize it to happen much more often The point here is related to, but not exactly "value of hypocrisy"

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Aug 2020

          9/ The point is simply this: when you have multiple axises you have more distinct spaces on the map. Gimbal lock is bad because it degrades the state space (metaphor)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock …

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        1. Matt S "therapeutic lalochezia advocate" Trout‏ @shadowcat_mst 11 Aug 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @LibertyFarmNH

          Iain Banks' Transition muses on that at one point.

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