and these sort of ad hominem attacks as we see in the excerpt
But this is ultimately what I’m getting at: this is fine.
You have a period of natural discourse over the exact nature of the is and isn’ts, and at some point a truth is found, and any further disagreement is such you have to recognize is irrational and must simply be squashed.
It’s not a lack of things to say; the people we’re talking to are not listening. Targets like Tim Sweeney, anyway. Audience members actually like it when you dunk on bad people. It’s cathartic. It feels like action.
If I had any criticism for these people, it’s that this action tends not to metastasize into anything. We’ve had decades and decades of discourse over global warming, probably some of it mean, and yet nothing has really happened. Nobody wants to put in the work to bring these polluting companies to heel.
but I look around the world and honestly think it’s a pipe dream.
I don’t necessarily think that anything is going to happen either, but I also don’t think that tempering our tones to be more civil and hyperfactual is helping.
To effect change, you need energy. And stopping people from hurrah-ing so that you can correct them on the nuances of their speech—speech that isn’t even wrong, if I’m being perfectly honest—speech that is only idictable by some fractal of technicalities—stifles that energy. You lose momentum, naturally, by constantly stopping to check your shoe laces.
Anyway, I really don’t mean to drag this out. I don’t think you’re a bad guy or anything, I just see a tone-policing thing happening here that irks me.
In the end, I think we’re more or less in the same page. If you picked up on a tone policing vibe, I think I can see that, but that totally wasn’t where I was coming from. EG, going after all CEOs for being brain washed psychopaths who naturally use AI because they’re psychopathic would have been in line with what I was saying, at least to me.
But no need to drag this out. Appreciate your comments!
But this is ultimately what I’m getting at: this is fine.
You have a period of natural discourse over the exact nature of the is and isn’ts, and at some point a truth is found, and any further disagreement is such you have to recognize is irrational and must simply be squashed.
It’s not a lack of things to say; the people we’re talking to are not listening. Targets like Tim Sweeney, anyway. Audience members actually like it when you dunk on bad people. It’s cathartic. It feels like action.
If I had any criticism for these people, it’s that this action tends not to metastasize into anything. We’ve had decades and decades of discourse over global warming, probably some of it mean, and yet nothing has really happened. Nobody wants to put in the work to bring these polluting companies to heel.
I don’t necessarily think that anything is going to happen either, but I also don’t think that tempering our tones to be more civil and hyperfactual is helping.
To effect change, you need energy. And stopping people from hurrah-ing so that you can correct them on the nuances of their speech—speech that isn’t even wrong, if I’m being perfectly honest—speech that is only idictable by some fractal of technicalities—stifles that energy. You lose momentum, naturally, by constantly stopping to check your shoe laces.
Anyway, I really don’t mean to drag this out. I don’t think you’re a bad guy or anything, I just see a tone-policing thing happening here that irks me.
All good!
In the end, I think we’re more or less in the same page. If you picked up on a tone policing vibe, I think I can see that, but that totally wasn’t where I was coming from. EG, going after all CEOs for being brain washed psychopaths who naturally use AI because they’re psychopathic would have been in line with what I was saying, at least to me.
But no need to drag this out. Appreciate your comments!
Thanks!