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Not a bad articulation of what I’ve come to think of as the sincere conservative position.
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1/ Yesterday we found out @ginacarano was fired from Star Wars over Social Media posts Lots of people talk about cancel culture, but so far no one has given a serious account of exactly what cancel culture is, where it comes from, and how it works So, Cancel Culture A Thread🧵
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It takes a sort of classical liberal approach based on free speech. But I think it fundamentally fails to grasp how facts and truth work in practice. wrote a nice 3-part series that I think better models things in terms of trust markets
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I can’t take “classical” stances seriously anymore. It’s like going to a renaissance fair. The people there are of course likely to be right about everything they say about swords and armor and wenches and knights. But that’s... not the world I live in.
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My own highly unpopular opinion is of course the correct one. We live in a divergentist world where increasingly it’s not important to agree about most things with most people and consensus truth is merely a larp that some seek as a lifestyle choice.
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The renaissance fair analogy is actually pretty good 🤔 Like all those people who want “civil debate” strike me the same way as people wanting to duel or joust. It accomplishes nothing except some entertainment for those who like it.
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I wonder... when was the last time a sincere debate had any meaningful impact on the world. I’m guessing in the late 1940s in the US. There are some Congress episodes that actually sound like people convincing adversaries across the aisle through persuasive arguments.
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This is the right pivot for classical liberals tbh; you don’t have to give up your values to acknowledge that most people don’t share them and probably never will. Then the interesting questions are “how far can I pursue my values, given that they’re unpopular?”
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This doesn't obviate the need for minimum viable coherence across emergent scales of interaction. At any scale, function breaks down beneath some threshold of consensus, given said "consensus" is indistinguishable from a multi-agent grammar of functionally adaptive interaction.
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We may think of this in terms of human interaction, or in terms of non human systems. Consider a mutation that removes a binding site critical for proton pump function. When that coherence fails, the entirety of the nested system building upon it ceases to function.
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yeah people ignore that the mass consensus of the 20th century was an unprecedented event and that it relied on a downtop technostructure that even in its heyday was barely keeping things togehter
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