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catiopatio
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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
·3 anni fa·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.