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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I don’t think waving away being a Luddite just by saying so makes it so.

    I can’t think of a single angle of principled moral theory that makes this okay. Vandalizing or stealing someone else’s property they paid for. Hurting both the restaurant and the customer by depriving them of their food. Holding back progress on an invention that can reduce the need for humans to engage in a type of work that is hard, dangerous at times, and low paid.

    From a purely rational on paper view, it doesn’t look terribly different than saying vandalizing or stealing from delivery vehicles driven by people isn’t wrong. What possible justification could there be for this view besides Ludditism fuck robots?





  • Data is one of those things that you don’t know how it’s going to be used against you until it is. If somebody is going to have that data, I’d rather my own government have that data vs a foreign government… Harming one’s own citizens isn’t a great strategy to get your way, but harming another’s citizens is quite effective.

    I don’t know what government actions you’ve been watching, if all of modern history is a guide, it’s a lot easier to make a profit by harming your own citizens rather than harming another country’s citizens.

    From where I’ve been sitting, the normal pattern is a country’s rich and powerful exploit the commoners of their own country for profit and power. It’s much harder to gain from exploiting another country’s citizens, i.e. you can’t directly tax them, you can’t take away their things, you can’t sell their rights to your powerful friends, etc.