What's the difference between a great novel and monkeys on a typewriter? Moral intent. It's the same with technological innovation.
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historically most great tech has emerged out of tinkering, curiosity, not "moral intent." That's simply a comforting humanist myth
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nope. All big things begin with tinkering. By the time moralizing begins, fundamental DNA of tech is set. Medium is message.
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If you mean that seriously, that begins with tinkering with ideas. Like how you once refactored MVP as EDP for me
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cooking ~ tinkering, roughly. Intent is fine. it's explicitly *moral* intent I think is unnecessary and a drag
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Things like explicit moral manifesto a la Ello. Otherwise, term is vacuous. There are lived values in all behavior.
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Heck, tinkering itself is lived value of playfulness, and pursuing it is implicitly a pursuit of moral intent.
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oh, yeah. In that case I just invoke Gall's law (I'm sure you're familiar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall )—central planning no-no.
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we converge :). Explicit moral intents imo always lead to authoritarian, overspecified plans.
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