8/ Bitcoin is the best thing to ever happen to cypherpunks. I can't conceive a better way to make cryptography mainstream. (TLS does not count) Stereotypes aside, people to my left participating by ridicule alone are creating a potentially dangerous vacuum if success continues.
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9/ Banning is bad, actually. I've been repeatedly wrong about this over the past few years because in the moment: "fuck these monstrous assholes." But I don't think social commons are merely romanticized goods — they're vital.
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10/ Unfortunately, twitter, facebook, et al are not social commons — they just mock them for adbucks. We pretended otherwise because engagement is stimulating. But pressure-release banning benefits no one more than
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11/ Creating a true open platform is hard because: 1) engineering distributed and decentralized low-latency is hard; 2) we crave low-latency; and, 3) we're so wildly promiscuous with our attention that faux-free tends to win the resource battle. (I want to be wrong.)
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12/ Give people cookies. If you can't do so because it is (quiet reasonably) exhausting, just ignore them. But the "do you want a cookie?" nonsense is not good at winning friends and influencing people because it rejects the premise that you need to do either — which is wrong.
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13/ The idea that the left is culturally ascendent calls forth a lot of facts not in evidence...unless you define "the left" as "in favor of human rights," which is admittedly not wrong by contrast. But again, banking on replacement fails to consider power grabbing is dynamic.
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14/ The current generation of bots exploit our fast-and-frugal cognition; the next generation will exploit our deliberative systems, too. Everyone needs to let go of the idea that bot-or-not matters because it either doesn't or classification is too costly.
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15/ You absolutely can punch down — no problem there. The issue is when you do so in a way that conspicuously favors punching in that direction with no relationship to harm done elsewhere and generally.
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16/ Everyone needs to shut the fuck up about signalling and counter-signalling. It's a god damn moral and cognitive prion.
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ooh, the anti-counter-signalling counter-signalling. so hot rn.
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