About once a week: Jessica: Can I still say <word or phrase>? Me: Yeah, that's still ok.
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Today I have a megaphone to 40K people, which I didn’t have 5 years ago. That’s like going from a dinner party to speaking on-stage in front of thousands of people at Central Park. That means I need to speak with more care and precision, since anyone in the audience can now tell
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When the audience size goes from ~dinner party to 40k ppl in a stadium, the burden of responsibility shifts from speaker to listener. If you don’t like what eg The Grateful Dead might have to say, don’t go to their concert
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>> How do we prove that that is true? Open twitter? The most interesting explanation I've read: you win social media by being outraged. When outraged, you build currency with your tribe (likes/retweets), gaining social status, releasing dopamine & feeling the joy of acceptence.
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So what if we take Mark Zuckerberg’s chart and say that the lived experience of this chart can *feel* like two things at the same time? The system incentivizes us to say the most provocative, borderline stuff possible *and* toeing that line also *feels* like censorship?pic.twitter.com/GHRVOaroml
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Watch some comedy routines from the 70’s. I believe you’ll quickly see a number of offensive routines far beyond what we’d accept today. One measure of changing sensibilities. Generally I agree with the changes, but I think sometimes about myself that I’ve become less tolerant.
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What does that tell me though? What if a person from the 1960s watched a comedy routine from the 1920s? How would we know that the delta of offensiveness for us watching something from the 1970s is more or less than that?
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