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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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
"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?
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
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")
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.
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?
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.
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.
I think the biggest sticking point for me is that @sama clearly values the potential innovation of a few bigoted assholes over the many smart folks in minority groups who are constantly marginalized by said assholes. He never stops to consider that bigotry stifles innovation.
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