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    1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

      How do smart people conflate "wacky ideas that seem heretical" with "really bigoted opinions that are not related to empirical concepts at all and are only used to hurt people"?pic.twitter.com/SfkKoXYhSf

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

      "This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics." What on Earth is going on?

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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

          So hold on a second. The argument is that Silicon Valley's alleged "PC" problem would prevent someone from inventing something like cyrptocurrency in Silicon Valley? I really don't even know where to start ...pic.twitter.com/jmRH09H1wt

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        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

          The critique that Silicon Valley is "too PC" is targeted almost entirely at "social justice" topics (bizarre stuff like "it sucks that you're not allowed to debate whether blacks are poor because they have a lower IQ")

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        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

          The idea that Silicon Valley considers "doing work that the government decided to be too hard" to be a heretical concept is deeply, deeply bizarre. If anything, SV has a glut of ideas like Bitcoin, and investors are far too credulous about them.

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        5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

          Maybe @sama has been getting pushback about the fact that investors are throwing money down a black hole of cryptocurrency projects and wants permission to believe in them?

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        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

          To be clear, @sama's argument is that it's important for Silicon Valley to have a norm that tolerates, *literally*, "gays are evil", because he perceives that it's too hard to pursue ideas like Bitcoin and SpaceX.

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        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 15 Dec 2017

          1. It's morally repugnant to tell people that they can't attempt to establish norms against calling gay people evil. 2. There is simply no shortage of support for ideas like Bitcoin and SpaceX. Coupling "wacky ideas" with "repugnant attitudes" is just a terrible take.

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        1. jabroni hawk pro-aviator‏ @elharaty 15 Dec 2017
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          His password is the n word

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        1. Matthew Schinckel‏ @schinckel 15 Dec 2017
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          I must confess I thought he meant “if we say disparaging things about gay physicists it will help them say novel things about physics”, which made no sense at all to me. Instead, what he says still makes no sense…

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        1. Highly Stateful Complex Device‏ @marcfawzi 15 Dec 2017
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          It reminds me of the notion of Epistemic Relativism! It is a little insane and maybe completely deranged to have no moral compass.

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