Joe Edelman  

@edelwax

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Berlin, Germany
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    Jun 4

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    If you're designing online or offline social spaces, I recommend taking this class on Social Environments & Human Values by :
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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.)

    A friend showed me this flowchart she found on the internet. It maps out meta-ethical views. So now I can tell you: Error Theory, Norm-Expressivism, and Prescriptivism are the only permitted theories. Judgement-Dependent views are passable but you get some side eye. Now you know.
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    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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    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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    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

    3. is ultimately a question of . As digital technology penetrates society ever more deeply & the two become ever more intertwined, the rules of the former will increasingly govern the latter"
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    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.

    WhatsApp is looking more and more like a public health crisis in India
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  9. Jul 2

    We only use 10% of our soul

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  10. Jul 1

    It's time for Federalist Papers 2.0

    Replying to @conradgoehausen
    The federalist papers were very explicit in drawing on historical precedents for everything they were doing
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  11. Jun 30

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

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    Jun 29
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    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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    Senator Cory Booker: "The president of the United States is a subject of an ongoing criminal investigation...that could end up before the Supreme Court," so any Trump SCOTUS nomination should be "delayed until the Mueller investigation is concluded."
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    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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    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.

    The built environment shapes how we form and maintain friendships, and it's useful to remember that common living patterns today have "shallow roots"
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  21. Jun 25

    Agreed. (re GDPR)

    think the increase in consent requests has probably increased the amount of confusion, helplessness, and apathy consumers experience with respect to terms of service
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