not sure it's likely though (and this is "someone else should", I have no interest in such things)
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ClarkHat and
personally if things go red in tooth and claw I'm rooting for hacker ultranationalism
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Trying to figure out how tribes split in that scenario. Say we get the Civil War
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Replying to @jtcbrule @alicemazzy and
Red Tribe seems like an obvious faction & takes a good chunk of the US military with them…
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Replying to @jtcbrule @alicemazzy and
I'm guessing Blue gets the metroplexes, a good chunk of the surveillance state apparatus…
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Replying to @jtcbrule @alicemazzy and
"Hacker ultranationalism" actually sounds plausible, w/the Get Off My Lawn types...
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Replying to @jtcbrule @alicemazzy and
There are shared values there & many skilled people. Perhaps enough to overcome antitribalism.
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Replying to @jtcbrule @alicemazzy and
But hackers are (I think?) only a small set of programmers in general, which seem to lean blue.
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Replying to @jtcbrule @drethelin and
yes, most SV startup types are blue or light gray (would cleave to blue if forced to choose)
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Replying to @alicemazzy @jtcbrule and
that is they are extreme believers in whig progress, their "change the world" talk is grounded...
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...in the assumption that _all_ change is "progress"
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Replying to @alicemazzy @jtcbrule and
"hackers" otoh tend to be extremely ideologically heterogenous, and constructivist in outlook, ..
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Replying to @alicemazzy @jtcbrule and
...that is, convinced by results and obsessed with what works. that's the tribe I'd want to be in
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