19/ I would think this is a wonderful project (okay, I'm obviously biased), and I wouldn't care if PG had said it — I think that need does exist! But, because PG did say it my first instinct is some variant of, "shut up we don't need a Verrit by Peter Thiel" solution.
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20/ And that's a problem because I'm almost sure technologists *not* in his particularly sycophantic orbit have the same reaction, which creates this weird deterrence space around the need.
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21/ I'm not saying we should strip identity from political discussion. That would be foolish. But, presentation does matter and if one presentation inhibits reception of important information (as it did for PG) while another facilitates it, wouldn't you want the latter?
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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 …💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 added,
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