One of the items on the list:
> China wrote better philosophy 2000 years ago than the West writes today.
What's "better philosophy"???
Manifesto of the Silent Minority
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#12WARNING: reading this article makes you roll your eyes so hard, they might just stay there.
Re: Manifesto of the Silent Minority
#13Cute and disturbing, but reading the survey responses (there weren’t a whole lot), the piece seems highly embellished. It reads like a sociopathic mad-lib and I’m not sure there are any valuable takeaways here (particularly insights about a so-called Silent Majority)
Less Wrong is a very opinionated site that should definitely be taken with a heavy dose of scepticism. Some of it is pretty out there. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
RationalWiki should also be taken with a heavy dose of scepticism!
Re: Manifesto of the Silent Minority
#14> If I cannot abolish democracy then I will repeal the 19th amendment and leave the rest to OpenAI. Is this a bad joke?
yes
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the Thiel Question. The value in it is supposed to be that it generates thoughtful and insightful responses - if you are right and 99% of people are wrong then that is indeed impressive. Unfortunately, it selects purely from the extremes, where real insight is random. If it generated more concrete (i.e. scientific) responses that could be tested, it would be a much better question.
Unfortunately, with today's standards of critical thinking and speaking, you get fired for speaking independently, this is more likely to spawn a new movement rather than provoke thoughtful responses.
> today’s standards
“Today’s”?
There has never been a better time for freedom of speech. You can pretty much say whatever you want and nobody is going to put you in jail or burn you at the stake. Indeed you have tools like never before with which to promulgate your message.
Even if your remarks are racist, xenophobic, misogynistic or some other kind of bigoted you can still pretty say much whatever you like and there’s even guys out there that will give you a platform.
You might think that these rights extend to the workplace but you would be wrong. Leave religion and politics at the door and just do your job.
I blame the culture of overwork that exists in the industry for many people not being able to know the difference between personal and professional.
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#16> If I cannot abolish democracy then I will repeal the 19th amendment and leave the rest to OpenAI. Is this a bad joke?
It's a joke, somehow. There's a link in the article to the raw responses of every participant in the survey. Some of them are not so outrageous, many of them just make me sad.
The joke is that, being from different persons, the article makes a mix of them that remarks the contrasts.
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#17WARNING: reading this article makes you roll your eyes so hard, they might just stay there.
I should read it then. Because such a facile dismissive comment makes me more interested in reading the article and less in what the commenter has to say.
Without having read a line yet, I'm betting the article goes against "polite conversation", and ventures into trying to say something interesting, and this is the "pearl clutching" that usually accompanies such a thing.
Let's see...
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#18What is your answer to the Thiel Question?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Less Wrong is a very opinionated site that should definitely be taken with a heavy dose of scepticism. Some of it is pretty out there. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
RationalWiki should also be taken with a heavy dose of scepticism!
The skepticism is included in RationalWiki.
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#20Not really sure of the value of this is? Unless I am missing something, this reads like it was written by an "edgy teenager". Perhaps I am just missing some context.
I think it’s satire.
If not, then I truly feel sorry for some folks.
The "Thiel Question" is Id-mining.
One of the things I often hear, when people are talking about "shock jocks" (both left and right), is "They are just saying what everyone is thinking."
In my experience, there's a reason that we don't just say what we think.