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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
argumate
argumate

reading up on the Ethereum / DAO hack and good lord is there some bad code out there in the world

jbeshir

“But what if there’s a bug and my code doesn’t do what I intended, letting someone take my money via means I didn’t expect?”

“Well, then you deserve to lose your money for your poor decision-making. Plus all the benefits of a process beyond human influence are worth making it so human judges and laws and fuzzy ideas of fairness can’t fix things. Besides, those fuzzy ideas do more harm than good.”

“There’s a bug in your code.”

”Okay, so let’s do a soft fork of the network in the short term to prevent the money from being spent, get the exchanges to freeze withdrawals, and then review what code changes we can make to give the money back to its proper owners.”

(This is a Plato’s chicken thing; if they truly deferred to the concept of ownership they’ve encoded into the software, the reaction would be “Yes, it’s the hacker’s money now, what of it?”)

Good ol’ fiat currency with fiat decision making remains the most reliable way for anyone with any grasp of the bounds of their own rationality, anyone who thinks the concept of an “unconscionable” contract has some value to them, to keep a balance.

argumate

Geeks love technology problems and hate people problems, so they try and convert every people problem into a technology problem.

Money is inherently social, because it’s merely a system for keeping track of how much you owe each other. Taking people out of the equation renders it absolutely useless, as the whole system only works by mutual agreement.

tl;dr bitcoin sux lmao

the invisible fist
ranma-official

mitigatedchaos asked:

tbh I suspect that TriggeredMedia is stuck in a loop that unless they defend literally every action done by American cops, the Anarchists are right and the state must be dismantled. they simply cannot conceive that "make better policies for better cops" could even be an option. (partly this 'contradiction' relates to other ideological policy constraints on e.g. welfare spending as alternative methods of crime reduction, most likely)

ranma-official answered:

Like I said, this is what smoking pure ideology looks like. Memorize a few phrases and then think of ways to reduce everything to these phrases.

mitigatedchaos

well, police not necessarily a violent gang, but where they are that itself undermines the whole stopping crime thing. if law is just crime for rich people, who cares about breaking it? so police being cruddy could contribute to crime even we don’t count it as crime directly. lots of forces to balance here, some of them cultural.

FWIW, I think my wage subsidy program idea would make a dent because it keeps people busy in addition to non-desperate and does not encourage bad behaviors (and could normalize good behaviors), but it would be necessary to test it to see if it works in practice.

intrigue-posthaste-please
intrigue-posthaste-please

I know I sound like a broken record when I say this, but tumblr is really shockingly sex-negative. Yes, there are lots of teenagers here, but when I was a teen I recall being much more fascinated by the positive possibilities of sex than freaked out by the wrong turns, and all I see is people 1) fretting about sex as though it’s a minefield of horrors or 2) mocking people who are outspoken about enjoying sex. We spent all of the 80s and 90s fostering open dialogue, and… now I don’t know, it’s like everyone’s uncomfortable again.

mitigatedchaos

I hate to be that person, but…

Maybe cybersex can be this light, airy, fun thing, but real sex, unless it’s in a monogamous, committed relationship, has characteristics that are actively against that.

When hetero, it always has the risk of babies.  It always has the risk of incurable disease.  It always has the risk of either causing or surfacing trauma.  It’s extremely vulnerable and sensitive.  It exposes our bodies with all the underlying concerns we have about them.

And it’s part of pair bonding.

A committed monogamous relationship

  • Ensures greater resources for parenting, should it come to that, rather than single parent destitution
  • Limits exposure to disease
  • Allows longer-term discussion and working through trauma with up to the maximum share of attention one person can provide, rather than having to open up about it repeatedly to strangers
  • Incentivizes mutual, reciprocal understanding as beneficial tit-for-tat
  • Requires opening up deep vulnerability about ourselves and our bodies to only one person, which many find less emotionally difficult
  • Promotes emotional bonding with someone who will emotionally bond back and still be there, regularly in one’s life

In that environment, sex can be fun, experimental, or exploratory, without having to worry so much about secondary consequences, straight, gay, or somewhere in-between.

intrigue-posthaste-please

My post didn’t opine about monogamy, so I’m not going to touch that. With regard to risk, of course sex with many partners is higher-risk than monogamy; no one questions that.

What I object to is how it seems like when sex is discussed on tumblr it’s usually in the context of risk avoidance, or with distinct distaste. When motorcycle enthusiasts or gun enthusiasts discuss their hobbies, they do it with a strong understanding of the major risks involved (if they’re smart). They sometimes even discuss the risks. But they also express excitement and enthusiasm for motorcycles and guns, and they aren’t uncomfortable about talking in detail on those subjects. In that context, the risks don’t render the activity shameful or wrong; they’re just known risks which any hobbyist should take into account. Sex is, or will become, an entertaining pastime for most of us, so I sometimes wish we could discuss it openly in that light.

But I’ve now spent too much time doing exactly what I dislike - discussing sex in a theoretical, detached way instead of talking about my own sex life / reliving good experiences / exploring fantasies - so I’ll stop here.

mitigatedchaos

Fair enough.

But also I’d rather not talk too much about my sex life because of, uh, let’s call it gender hangups prevalent in both the feminist and traditionalist discourse.

(Also because this isn’t really a blog for it.)

triggeredmedia
boingboing.net

"I'll keep doing that until I run out of batteries" Tennessee sheriff's deputies torture teenager with stun gun

This video is hard to watch. It shows a group of Cheatham County, TN Sheriff’s Deputies restraining a teenager in a chair and shocking him repeatedly with a stun gun.
priceofliberty

Absolutely nothing could justify doing this to another person.

simply-cosmic

This article doesn’t mention that this teenager was arrested for marijuana possession. He’s being tortured over a victimless crime.

triggeredmedia

There are not victims of the drugs? I’ll let mexico and so many people here killed by gangs know that. 

mitigatedchaos

There are victims of drugs, but pot isn’t some sort of cyberpunk drug that turns dudes into hunter-killer zombies, and

1) Stun guns are “less than lethal” weapons, not non-lethal weapons.  If you’re a gun enthusiast you should know this.

2) This isn’t the law.  The law does not indicate electrical torture for pot, not even in spirit.  In doing this, these men are undermining the faith of the people in the justice system and, indirectly, the very legitimacy of the state.

3) If corporal punishment were indicated (which it isn’t), some other method less likely to cause a heart attack would be a better option.

You don’t have to defend every single thing or else the anarchists win, dude.  You only have to support changes to policies that would reduce this behavior in the future, such as independent prosecutorial boards for police misconduct at the state level which are not beholden to the police for their ordinary duties.  America doesn’t lose anything by making its police better.

Source: priceofliberty the iron hand

Anonymous asked:

Wombdustrial revolution when

I was joking.  Artificial wombs are predominantly owned by private fertility companies, especially in Europe and North America, which lease them out as part of their designer baby packages.

For the most part, the only state-owned artificial wombs are in Japan, Korea, and China, and in China they’re purely for military concerns.  Though the ten thousand blossoms program in Japan has performed about as well as can be expected.

chronofelony augmented reality break mitigated future anons asks
mailadreapta
the-grey-tribe

Gentle reminder that I don’t think that men are bad or that women are bad, but the discourse around them dating is bad:

  • Some women often hold other men and women to patriarchial gender standards
  • Other people act like nobody adheres to rigid gender roles any more and there is no cost to breaking them
  • Straight women suck at understanding what dating a woman is like
  • People don’t grow up right when they turn 18
  • Most people gradually do grow up around 22-25
  • Dating experiences carry over from your time as a teenager or a self-conscious adult, even though they don’t apply any more
  • Dating advice is dependent on lots of context, but if you are the kind of person who needs advice, you likely cannot tell what is relevant and which kind of advice applies to you
argumate

surely human relationships are the most difficult thing people ever attempt.

mailadreapta

Hot take: making human procreation depend on human relationships was a bad idea.

the-grey-tribe

Ice cold take! You are like 85 years late at least!

mailadreapta

I was gesturing towards arranged marriages more than eugenics and artificial wombs, but either way I was hoping that this take was so cold it became hot again.

mitigatedchaos

Sterilize everyone and have the State raise all children from embryos!

… h-hey! p-put down those torches and pitchforks!

Source: the-grey-tribe shtpost this is a joke gendpol
slartibartfastibast
shlevy

Things that can simultaneously be true:

  • The rapes in Rotherham were a horrifying crime that could have been prevented
  • A combination of a liberal immigration policy, official adoption of multicultural value systems, and in particular a strong fear of offending Muslims allowed the travesty of Rotherham to continue
  • The value systems of many in the West and in particular in the United States are consistent with and likely to lead to similar horrible lapses like Rotherham again
  • There is generally insufficient awareness of what happened in Rotherham
  • It is bad tactics, extraordinarily obnoxious, and harmful to your ability properly consider all relevant factors* if you choose to bring up Rotherham at every possible relevant point, and many irrelevant points as well.

(this post aimed mostly but not exclusively at @slartibartfastibast)

* Including, FWIW, factors that if ignored can lead to even worse sins than Rotherham itself.

slartibartfastibast

There are a few different matters that I’m frequently accused of bringing up more often than is necessary. I don’t see it that way. People didn’t want to bring this up back when it mattered. I see my one-trackedness as making up lost ground. And there’s a lot of ground to make up.

mitigatedchaos

Well you see, IME liberal multiculturalists tend to think that anyone to the right of them worrying about this sort of thing is a paranoid bigot that is hallucinating things because they are huffing racism, and that the only possible reasons anyone would worry are unjustified xenophobia and anti-brown-people racism.  (Rationalists are kind enough to give a much greater benefit of the doubt than twitter liberals, because they are Rationalists.  Which is good.)

So unfortunately, from time to time, it must be shoved into their faces that no, these concerns are not paranoid bigot hallucinations, because if it happened in one place and was covered up, then there are good odds it’s still happening in other places and being covered up.

I think once you properly incorporate that information into your worldview, what you have doesn’t count as Liberalism anymore.  It could be reasonably close, but it’s a certain… cultural consciousness that was deemed morally reprehensible at the end of the last century, because it was considered dangerous and oppressive.

Source: shlevy politics
intrigue-posthaste-please
intrigue-posthaste-please

I know I sound like a broken record when I say this, but tumblr is really shockingly sex-negative. Yes, there are lots of teenagers here, but when I was a teen I recall being much more fascinated by the positive possibilities of sex than freaked out by the wrong turns, and all I see is people 1) fretting about sex as though it’s a minefield of horrors or 2) mocking people who are outspoken about enjoying sex. We spent all of the 80s and 90s fostering open dialogue, and… now I don’t know, it’s like everyone’s uncomfortable again.

mitigatedchaos

I hate to be that person, but…

Maybe cybersex can be this light, airy, fun thing, but real sex, unless it’s in a monogamous, committed relationship, has characteristics that are actively against that.

When hetero, it always has the risk of babies.  It always has the risk of incurable disease.  It always has the risk of either causing or surfacing trauma.  It’s extremely vulnerable and sensitive.  It exposes our bodies with all the underlying concerns we have about them.

And it’s part of pair bonding.

A committed monogamous relationship

  • Ensures greater resources for parenting, should it come to that, rather than single parent destitution
  • Limits exposure to disease
  • Allows longer-term discussion and working through trauma with up to the maximum share of attention one person can provide, rather than having to open up about it repeatedly to strangers
  • Incentivizes mutual, reciprocal understanding as beneficial tit-for-tat
  • Requires opening up deep vulnerability about ourselves and our bodies to only one person, which many find less emotionally difficult
  • Promotes emotional bonding with someone who will emotionally bond back and still be there, regularly in one’s life

In that environment, sex can be fun, experimental, or exploratory, without having to worry so much about secondary consequences, straight, gay, or somewhere in-between.

gendpol
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