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Ardennes posted:https://twitter.com/JustineTunney It's more neoreactionary than her joking lets on. If we're lucky, maybe all the ancaps and pseudo-technocrats will trend towards this Dark Enlightenment stuff where they can be even more easily made fun of. The Dark Enlightenment people are the Strassers of the "third positionists," in a warped sort of way. MothraAttack fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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blowfish posted:Fundamentally, the point of a technocratic government is not More Power to Silicon Valley or building ~rational~ housing units even if they're poo poo to live in. A scientific approach to government could, for instance, work akin to a theory of policy where you implement policy according to the best of your knowledge, observe the effects, and improve your understanding of how people respond to policy changes and which things are relevant in assessing side effects (it's almost as if one could apply the scientific method to learn from mistakes of previous administrations Right, it seems clear that greasing the Valley's wheels is not the outcome of such talk. The thing is that a lot of ancap/Singularity/libertarian right geek chat is vocally anti-democratic -- they use technology or public choice theory or whatever to undermine self determination in favor of a positivist method that, while beneficial to some groups in theory, pretty much neglects two centuries of social science. I get what you're saying and such an attitude could achieve utilitarian goals, but I just don't think that's how they see it, and I think by advocating that you expose yourself to lots of understandable criticism. MothraAttack fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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blowfish posted:If you ask assholes about their chosen method of government, the result is going to involve poo poo Yeah, absolutely. I have this gut feeling that the internet and technological optimism is somehow making ancaps and others split more towards a reactionary stance.
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