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catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
Tall about mixed metaphors!

Nobody said anything about a “final solution” or gulags.

“We can do better” and “calling for having taste” certainly seems to imply a command-economy approach to the marketplace of ideas.

If that’s not what you intended, what do you mean by “have taste” and “do better”?
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
The zero-sum game and extremist solution are inherent in their position.

As the parent says in their reply below:

> My post was a call for being smarter about who we invest in.
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
The zero-sum command-economy view of free speech: we have to exercise prior restraint on what people can say to ensure that there’s room for the people we approve of to speak.
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
Are you claiming that childhood bullying is equivalent to a program run by the CIA exploring the use of psychological torture and mind-altering substances?
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
None of what you said has any bearing on the intellectual validity of his manifesto. There’s nothing to “even out” — we can and do separate the work from the author.

I found some degree of edification in reading his manifesto, and I see no justification for your attempt to dissuade others from reading it.
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
For the price of a single Apple Vision Pro, I can buy a 65” 4K TV, a Dolby Atmos surround-sound system from Sonos, and still have a bit left over.

And you’ll need a Vision Pro for each person watching.
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
Stories like these are a prime example of grossly irresponsible historical revisionism born out of either ignorance and/or unethical expedience, unilaterally redefining “key punch operator” to be what we now call a “programmer”.
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
You’re positing that the physical differences between men and women are materially inconsequential, have no impact on social behavior, and somehow cease before impacting the brain — and you deign to accuse everyone else of “anti-scientifism”?

You’re welcome to the opinion, but denying obvious, observable, verifiable reality because it fails to fit your dogmatic model of the world is not science; co-opting science and denying biological reality in service of your activism is far closer to both colonialism and sexism than any of the views you’re arguing against.
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
Acknowledging the average differences between the sexes is neither colonialism nor sexism. It is a reasonable hypothesis that explains some disparities in individual choices that lead to disparities in aggregate outcome.

To riff on your rather bold assertion: precluding such a hypothesis from consideration is rooted in activist biases of the radical mindset of non-scientists in the 21st century.
catiopatio
·hace 3 años·discuss
> I imagine it’s a common complaint from people who don’t thrive in a slow, steady, process oriented culture.

People who don’t thrive in a process-oriented culture? That’s everyone except for administrators and political ladder climbers.