Posted by
glen ropella on
Jan 27, 2014; 4:08pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Live-Q-A-with-Edward-Snowden-Thursday-23rd-January-8pm-GMT-3pm-EST-tp7584887p7584904.html
On 01/26/2014 04:32 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> I guess there are people that like to do this kind of journalism,
> or even find a way to make a living off of it. I am even glad this
> kind of activity exists. (And it does exist even for other
> semi-technical conversational mailing lists.) However, I think its
> clear that once a story lands on arstechnica or slashdot (or even
> Nature) that the readers aren't really participants any more than people
> that watch Nova are scientists (just for watching).
The topic deserves attention. The (alleged) decline of facebook in
favor of instagram and the like, the (alleged) failure of Google+, the
shift from personal blogging to corporate/issue blogging, etc. are all
direct consequences of the (filosofickle) differences you're talking
about here.
Renee' made the comment to me last night that she can't even imagine
what "the future" means to current high school students. I suggested we
should probably listen to more rap or popular music just to help keep
tabs on it. But both of us have such a severely negative reaction to
that music that we can't bring ourselves to do it. I've _forced_ myself
to wade into lots of things I initially had bad reactions to, though.
And each time I do it, I'm rewarded. In fact, the harder I try, the
more rewarding it becomes.
I accidentally spent some of my morning reading this:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/jhs/dark_arts_of_rationality/> Today, we're going to talk about Dark rationalist techniques: productivity tools which seem incoherent, mad, and downright irrational. These techniques include:
>
> 1. Willful Inconsistency
> 2. Intentional Compartmentalization
> 3. Modifying Terminal Goals
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