There seems to be a consensus now that the exposure to ideas, arguments and memes on youtube, facebook, google search and twitter must be carefully manipulated to make sure people don't elect the wrong politician or have the wrong idea about gay marriage. But why stop there?
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Replying to @Plinz
I think if you tie it to outcomes, sure it becomes problematic. However, I’ve come to the conclusion that lies are the speech analog of violence in the physical domain. What if it’s not about agendas, but instead lies?
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Replying to @arigesher
Why does a policy become more ethical if you don’t tie it to outcomes?
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Replying to @Plinz
It doesn’t. My point there was that peering down the slippery slope of content moderation and deciding it’s a bad a idea is allowing current bad behavior to remain for fear of unrealized harms. I really don’t know the answer, but I worry free speech as a concept may be too pure.
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Replying to @arigesher
I don't know the answer either. Some of my first questions would be whether a human society based on fully informed and aware self interest works, what trajectories are obtainable, how they compare to the alternatives, and what can be implemented starting from the present state.
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Replying to @Plinz
Yeah, the cruel path dependency of having to start with our actual initial conditions makes finding a different, better hill to climb a fantasy.
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If the current system is not sustainable, the question of fixing it may become moot, and our focus should be on the construction of a Phoenix that can rise out of the ashes. I just hope that it is mostly societal software that will burn, instead of most people and infrastructure.
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