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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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      What’s dumb-ass about the first two statements besides the fact that humanist social determinists who believe they actually have agency over these decisions hate them? It’s only dumb-ass if you add a 4th line by the *same* people, “oh no what have we done?”

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    2. Royalty Free Music from Niftyland‏ @niftynei 25 Nov 2019
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      it’s dumb because the implications of these capabilities are REALLY OBVIOUS if you know anything at all about how money, power and influence work

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    3. Royalty Free Music from Niftyland‏ @niftynei 25 Nov 2019
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      basic go to market thinking isnt something most people who engineer things for a living are incentived to think about

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    4. Royalty Free Music from Niftyland‏ @niftynei 25 Nov 2019
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      literally a FATAL FLAW imo

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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      Not really. I worked on drone and autonomous robotics for years and literally nobody I met on the civilian industry, military, or academic side had any illusions an;it what they were building and how it would be used. We literally used specific military and policing use cases.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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      The peaceful civilian use cases are always just a nice-to-have plus market on the thinking. There is no agonizing or moral dilemmas. People with those social determinist tendencies tend not to get into such work at all.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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      The trope of the clueless engineer who suddenly has a humanist consciousness raising moment of “oh god what have I done” is pure humanist wishful thinking combined with the self-important belief that they’re more morally “evolved” and see things poor dumb tech-fetishists don’t.

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    8. Royalty Free Music from Niftyland‏ @niftynei 25 Nov 2019
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      you have never worked in SV, have you

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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      They are dominantly design/UX side people or people who came to the tech side from humanities/social science because they discovered an aptitude for programming. I’d say engineers who fit your caricature are <10%. Most of us are total death-star assholes who accept the Empire 😎

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    10. Royalty Free Music from Niftyland‏ @niftynei 25 Nov 2019
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      Royalty Free Music from Niftyland Retweeted Royalty Free Music from Niftyland

      thank you for proving my point https://twitter.com/niftynei/status/1199007801101692928?s=21 …https://twitter.com/niftynei/status/1199007801101692928 …

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      Royalty Free Music from Niftyland @niftynei
      im entirely convinced that the majority of engineering education institutions in this country are morally bankrupt and ethically compromised
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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      🤨

      9:27 AM - 25 Nov 2019
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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          🤣

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2019
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          Good Scorpio vs Evil Scorpio

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