Joe Edelman  

@edelwax

The ideas we needed yesterday, today.

Berlin, Germany
Joined July 2006

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    Jun 4
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  2. 4 hours ago

    For the record: I'm a Cornell Realist except I see the category of the moral as incoherent. (So I'm a value realist, not a moral realist.)

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  3. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    If you want to create an event, set aside two hours. If you want to create relationships, set aside 4 hours and feed people.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jul 3

    A bureaucracy created to solve a problem will often decide not to. Solving the problem would put them out of a job.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jul 3
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    I'm not sure that the tech community's focus on a technical 'decentralisation' is the right one, for 2 main reasons: 1/ the solutions seem complex. Consumers prefer simple. 2/ Once decentralised, how will these services evolve? Via a central committee? That's centralised! 1/2

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  6. Jul 3

    There's danger to decentralizing the web before we can make it accountable to social harms. - machine-enforced contracts involving child exploitation - AI driven profit maximizer bots - clickbait incentives baked into P2P code Worse than monopolies

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  7. Retweeted
    Jul 2

    One must imagine Sisyphus excited, stoked, so happy to announce that he’ll be rolling a stone up a hill for all eternity! This is a great opportunity for him to really develop his career. What an amazing journey. All the best on your ceaseless ordeal, Sisyphus! Excited for you

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  8. Jul 2

    WhatsApp in India - it shows us what social harms we can expect from end-to-end-encrypted, distributed social networks.

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  9. Jul 2

    We only use 10% of our soul

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  10. Jul 1
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  11. Jun 30

    Are You a Journalist Fostering Outrage Online? Consider Replacing Yourself with a Bot!

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  12. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    The question of *why* everyone would deserve basic respect is gaping rn. Used to be - because God in all of us later - because Reason - because Agency Atm each is thought discredited. Will worsen until we have broadly accepted ideas about what is noble in human beings.

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  13. Jun 29

    (plz forgive one US politics tweet. Won't happen again.)

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  14. Jun 29

    Russian bots—they've started a culture war; elected a president; maybe… don't let them sudo the supreme court?

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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 28

    Twitter doesn't have a liberal/conservative bias, it has a bias towards outrage. Outrage yields large amounts of "engagement" (likes/retweets) which is what measures

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    Jun 28

    Many are blind to non-goal-related aspects of human beings and non-contractual aspects of relationships. To them the social fabric seems made of goals and contracts. So crypto-libertarianism/-anarchism seems workable.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    Making cities multi-member house districts would increase urban representation in congress and help combat political polarization.

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  18. Jun 27

    Beyond critique is redesign

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  19. Jun 26

    Difficult Parts of Living by Certain Values on Twitter (take 2)

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  20. Jun 25

    The five most powerful technologies of isolation—smartphones, cars, suburbs, TV, and single family homes—arose just in the last century.

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  21. Jun 25
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