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Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by pfraze »

EQmWgw87pw wrote: post #70
jordanb wrote: post #49

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It was always difficult to get normal people to understand why the tech billionaires are so bad until Thiel gave us that clip of him getting stumped by the "should humanity survive" question. I'm forever grateful to Thiel for that clip, and to Musk for his crippling Twitter addiction. It was pretty impossible to get regular people to understand that folks like Bill Gates or Larry Ellison are skinwalkers when all they…

So someone is evil because they answer questions by thinking through them? There are no questions in the universe that can’t be stopped and pondered over. In fact, it’s dangerous to even suggest that, that’s the exact mechanism that propaganda runs on.

Ah yes, the real danger to the world isn’t a powerful man feeling ambivalent about our survival. The real danger is society using that moment as propaganda.

This regarding Thiel, a man who most recently tried to make a “Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist” meme stick.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by BoredPositron »

righthand wrote: post #88
BoredPositron wrote: post #61

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There is more than “unique web design” that cause reading issues with that article. For one the lowercase and as well as arcane keywords and organization. Not mention the autoplay music. I have communicated this to the author and they shrugged it off.

>> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by sznio »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #65
jacquesm wrote: post #63

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The list is getting longer and longer, but a good touchstone is simply net worth. You don't normally get to the top of a foodchain without being an apex predator.

Indeed. Empathy and the levels of wealth accumulation in scope are incompatible imho. They are the paperclip maximizers we were warned about.

I thought about the same recently, in the context of the Epstein files.

You don't become a billionaire by being moral. Each time you don't do something because it's wrong, you lost opportunity to make more money. You start with smaller things, then your standards slide more and more, until you are a billionaire, and you're so corrupt there isn't anything for you to do except make more money.

Which makes me wonder, how many people went to Epstein's island not because they like diddling kids, but because they needed to network with Epstein to make more money. How many actively participated just to be in his in-group? Not because they enjoyed, they just were so corrupt that they would do anything for business.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by jacquesm »

johndhi wrote: post #76
toomuchtodo wrote: post #65

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Indeed. Empathy and the levels of wealth accumulation in scope are incompatible imho. They are the paperclip maximizers we were warned about.

Where do you guys come up with these ideas? Simply having a lot of money makes someone evil? Why? They are obviously all quite competitive in business but the philanthropy they've done is pretty crazy. Gates for example is giving away hundreds of billions of dollars. What does it even matter if he's compassionate or not if he's doing that?

> Where do you guys come up with these ideas?

By thinking.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

#97

Post by Spivak »

EQmWgw87pw wrote: post #70
jordanb wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was always difficult to get normal people to understand why the tech billionaires are so bad until Thiel gave us that clip of him getting stumped by the "should humanity survive" question. I'm forever grateful to Thiel for that clip, and to Musk for his crippling Twitter addiction. It was pretty impossible to get regular people to understand that folks like Bill Gates or Larry Ellison are skinwalkers when all they…

So someone is evil because they answer questions by thinking through them? There are no questions in the universe that can’t be stopped and pondered over. In fact, it’s dangerous to even suggest that, that’s the exact mechanism that propaganda runs on.

Actually evil, no. Forever changed by their enormous wealth which messes you up mentally in a lots of fun unique ways, changes the nature of every relationship you'll have post wealth, and feeds into your ego and all your latent neurosis further and further alienating you from and believing yourself above your fellow man, yes.

Evil is just a shorthand.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by dgxyz »

BoredPositron wrote: post #82
dgxyz wrote: post #73

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Reading mode doesn't work on Safari for me... I get a paragraph and sod all else. So respectfully, do not make assumptions. And if you want someone to read the content, don't surround it with shite.

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I didn't flag it. I wouldn't unless the content was problematic, which it is not!

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by jacquesm »

sznio wrote: post #95
toomuchtodo wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. Empathy and the levels of wealth accumulation in scope are incompatible imho. They are the paperclip maximizers we were warned about.

I thought about the same recently, in the context of the Epstein files. You don't become a billionaire by being moral. Each time you don't do something because it's wrong, you lost opportunity to make more money. You start with smaller things, then your standards slide more and more, until you are a billionaire, and you're so corrupt there isn't anything for you to do except make more money. Which makes me wonder, ho…

This the mindblowing thing about the whole Epstein saga: so many people knew about this. And yet, the mutually assured destruction of having been associated with Epstein was enough to effectively impose a code of silence on all of them.
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