(ex. they might criticize an economics paper that attributes civil unrest to food shortages without discussing how it might originate in individual dissatisfaction with oppression and corruption).
Dissatisfaction with oppression and corruption in itself doesn’t have much to do with individual people being actors. Standard feminist theory suggests that social groups are oppressed.
And to a great degree it is orthogonal to what they do. A scenario like the singularity may not be, in that it’s not orthogonal to anyone or anything, but I haven’t had many conversations about it with those in the humanities.
As far as LW ideas go, prediction markets do have political implications. X-risk prevention does have political implications.
CFAR mission also mentions that they want to change how we decide which legislation to pass.
A bunch of geeks are working on getting liquid democracy to work.
Wikileaks and it’s in actions do have political effects.
Sweden recently changed their Freedom of Press laws to make it clear that having a server in Sweden is not enough to profit from Swedish press protections because Julian Assanges Wikileaks tried to use Swedish press protection to threaten people who try to uncover sources of Wikileaks.
In Germany a professor of sociology recently wrote a book that argued that Quantified Self is driven by the belief that it’s possible to know everything. It isn’t. The kind of geeks New Atheists that want everything to be evidence-based and who believe that they can know everything generally reject QS for not doing blinded and controlled trials.
He simply treated all geeks the same way and therefore missed the heart of the issue.
How much have polticial scientists wrote about Crypto Wars and in Cory Doctorow words the recent war on general computing?
Estonia had to be defended against cyber war by a lose collection where likely the stronger players weren’t government associated. It’s also quite likely that we live in a time where a nongovernemntal force is strong enough to start such a war.
The NSA is geeky enough that it’s NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander modeled his office after the Star Treck bridge.
Jeff Bezos brought the Washington post. Pierre Omidyar who made his money with ebay sponsored First Look Media. Those are the signs that more and more political power goes to geeks.
What are you thinking of?
I’m just pointing to a political idea to which you probably aren’t exposed.
the effect of physical rigors on those in the military
Military training is not supposed to build empathy but the opposite. Soldiers are trained to ignore bodily feelings.
Dissatisfaction with oppression and corruption in itself doesn’t have much to do with individual people being actors. Standard feminist theory suggests that social groups are oppressed.
As far as LW ideas go, prediction markets do have political implications. X-risk prevention does have political implications.
CFAR mission also mentions that they want to change how we decide which legislation to pass.
A bunch of geeks are working on getting liquid democracy to work.
Wikileaks and it’s in actions do have political effects.
Sweden recently changed their Freedom of Press laws to make it clear that having a server in Sweden is not enough to profit from Swedish press protections because Julian Assanges Wikileaks tried to use Swedish press protection to threaten people who try to uncover sources of Wikileaks.
In Germany a professor of sociology recently wrote a book that argued that Quantified Self is driven by the belief that it’s possible to know everything. It isn’t. The kind of geeks New Atheists that want everything to be evidence-based and who believe that they can know everything generally reject QS for not doing blinded and controlled trials. He simply treated all geeks the same way and therefore missed the heart of the issue.
How much have polticial scientists wrote about Crypto Wars and in Cory Doctorow words the recent war on general computing?
Estonia had to be defended against cyber war by a lose collection where likely the stronger players weren’t government associated. It’s also quite likely that we live in a time where a nongovernemntal force is strong enough to start such a war.
The NSA is geeky enough that it’s NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander modeled his office after the Star Treck bridge.
Jeff Bezos brought the Washington post. Pierre Omidyar who made his money with ebay sponsored First Look Media. Those are the signs that more and more political power goes to geeks.
I’m just pointing to a political idea to which you probably aren’t exposed.
Military training is not supposed to build empathy but the opposite. Soldiers are trained to ignore bodily feelings.