11/ Given OPs use of 'neutral' and the previous posts which mistakenly conflated evolving language with "a dramatic shift to the left," it seems like his prescribed objective function demands, i) an unbiased sample for attention allocation; ii) identity-less presentation.
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22/ Or to put it differently, if I had written this thread under an alt in the vernacular of HackerNews bros — some boisterous mixture of NNT, PG, and Ayn Rand — would you have been as likely to listen to me?
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TL;DR(A): "If I owned a newspaper, I would simply report an unbiased sample of harms subject to correction by social intervention."
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TL;DR(B): I'm pretty sure PG just wants the "paper of record" to reflect his priors and identity, as do we all.
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P.S. To make this more concrete, consider a lot of the discourse around "white privilege." During 2016, there were a few clips interviewing some random white rural person reacting angrily to the premise of white privilege.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1201291209563656192 …
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People used to thinking in that framework reacted by shitposted derisively and vitriolicly about the "rubes" reaction. You saw the same response to Hillbilly Elegy, too. (I hesitate to use the later as an example, because I didn't think it was good.)
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Thing is, if you're talking about the unconditional expectation of white v black people in the US, it's hard to deny the disparity technically captured by the term white privilege. (Unless you're explicitly racist, as a fuckload of people are.)
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But, the distributions are wide. No, not every black person is worse off than every white person. If you present everything as if they were, you're going to alien a lot of people who quickly learn to associate "white privilege" with "bullshit." Presentation matters.
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Oh, P.P.S., this *is* a problem I am working on from various angles, so if you're a technologist who wants to build or a VC/angel who doesn't want to create the next panopticon / prior confirmation engine, my DMs are open.
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P.P.P.S related for my
#phdlife-heavy followers, https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1201192398124191751?s=21 …https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1201192398124191751 …Show this thread
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How do you mean to define “inhibit” or “facilitate” as actual deliverables here?
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That's the impossibly hard part, unfortunately. At the extremes, "FUCK YOU DIPSHIT, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL" is going to work less effectively than "the economic impact of climate change will be devastating" for Joe 401(k). But, outside of the lab, decomposition is...hard hard.
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