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Crypto PM. Salon over soapbox. Maybe a metarationalist or something. How do we improve large-scale human collaboration?

San Francisco, USA
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    1. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      Most people do not think critically about what equality is, or what it must give up to achieve this miracle of “no one standing above me”. It comes with a terrible price

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    2. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      The claim that everyone _is_ equal does not stand up to even a moment of scrutiny. Some are rich and some are poor. Some are moral and some are evil. Etc. Equality is not DEscriptive, therefore it must be PREscriptive.

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    3. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      And if equality is a moral prescription, then anything that increases inequality MUST be morally wrong.

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    4. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      The following may seem like a ridiculous extrapolation but if equality is to be a value, it must be a terminal value. If it is not a terminal value, then it will fail entirely, for hierarchy will creep in, and if you give it an inch it will take a mile

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    5. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      In order to be a good terminal value, it must survive being taken to its logical extreme. The logical extreme of equality is total equality. No one of high status. No one of good moral standing. No one who is a great artist or poet

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    6. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      To equality, all difference must be nauseating, a great festering wound. All diversity must be sacrificed to equality. Any difference is a foothold for superiority which is a foothold for hierarchy.

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    7. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      To equality, there can be no beauty. For the existence of beauty demands the existence of ugliness, and no quality can exist except in the face of a contrast.

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    8. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Jul 31

      Under equality, it’s wrong to get stronger. It’s wrong to save money, wrong to read challenging books, wrong to become famous, especially for a clever or brave deed. To do so is to oppress someone with your superiority

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    9. Jessica Watson Miller‏ @autotrnslucence Sep 19
      Replying to @0x49fa98

      You're conflating prestige hierarchies with dominance hierarchies. You're straw-manning leftism to say it is always against prestige hierarchies. There is a big difference between coercion of the weak and mere powerlessness of incompetence.

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    10. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 19
      Replying to @autotrnslucence

      Leftism strawmans itself

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      Jessica Watson Miller‏ @autotrnslucence Sep 19
      Replying to @0x49fa98

      *ism strawmans itself

      1:47 PM - 19 Sep 2018
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        2. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 19
          Replying to @autotrnslucence

          Prestige is just dominance with ideas instead of swords

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        3. Nathan Spears‏ @spearofsolomon Sep 19
          Replying to @0x49fa98 @autotrnslucence

          There are feedback loops between weakness in dominance hierarchies and weakness in prestige hierarchies. Leftists often object to this instinctually without being able to articulate it.

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        4. Jessica Watson Miller‏ @autotrnslucence Sep 19
          Replying to @spearofsolomon @0x49fa98

          I think that the success-to-the-successful feedback spirals that intensify inequality in hierarchies tend to be the thing that contributes most to both the instability of the structure and how much suffering the structure causes.

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        5. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 19
          Replying to @autotrnslucence @spearofsolomon

          What if the successful deserve success? What if suffering is necessary, natural, and good? What if instability is the only way we grow?

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        6. Nate Babcock‏ @coachnateb Oct 1
          Replying to @0x49fa98 @autotrnslucence @spearofsolomon

          HP, I also think you are presenting a strawman here. Sure, some on the left probably claim they want "equality" in the sense that you are critiquing. But I don't think this is the sort of equality the "left" (whatever that is) desires. It's more of an "equity." +

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        7. Nate Babcock‏ @coachnateb Oct 1
          Replying to @coachnateb @0x49fa98 and

          Emancipation is more of an equal access to opportunity, particularly the opportunity to decide on what "success" looks like. Emancipation does not hold sameness as the goal, it holds diversity as the always already fact of the matter that is negated through oppression...+

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        8. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Oct 1
          Replying to @coachnateb @autotrnslucence @spearofsolomon

          Every form of equality is an isotope of totalitarian equality. How to achieve equal opportunity? You would have to implement full communism and even then some people would have better parents than others. And some are tall and some are short, how will you make this fair?

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        9. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Oct 1
          Replying to @0x49fa98 @coachnateb and

          Once you start down this road there is no stopping. Every different circumstance becomes an axis of oppression.

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