Re:The History of the Dot Com Era
by andrepd on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:46AM
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>I think society these days is divided into three. The ideological left, ideological right, and the people who are more interested in reasoning through difficult problems.
Why is "ideology" a bad thing? I have ideological positions that can't be rationally derived from first principles: universal human rights, belief in freedom, belief in tolerance. Why are people with strong values and beliefs mere drones, while the people in the "centre" are the rational people interested in solving problems?
> the less dogmatic are people who gravitate toward hacking solutions to things. People might deride that as seeking technological fixes to intractable problems, but it's essentially apolitical
There is nothing apolitical about this. Accepting the current broad system and ruling class and trying only for "small fixes" is a political position.
Re:The History of the Dot Com Era
by zozbot234 on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:09PM
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You're assuming that technologically-focused folks "accept[] the current broad system and ruling class" and have only small ambitions. Neither of these assumptions seems especially warranted.
Why is "ideology" a bad thing? I have ideological positions that can't be rationally derived from first principles: universal human rights, belief in freedom, belief in tolerance. Why are people with strong values and beliefs mere drones, while the people in the "centre" are the rational people interested in solving problems?
> the less dogmatic are people who gravitate toward hacking solutions to things. People might deride that as seeking technological fixes to intractable problems, but it's essentially apolitical
There is nothing apolitical about this. Accepting the current broad system and ruling class and trying only for "small fixes" is a political position.