Election 2020
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See here's an example of being able to converse with and learn from someone who votes otherwise, in our polarized times. I happen to have voted for Biden/Harris, and yet I don't feel antagonistic to @suspendedreason here.
Again, I think its better to have serious reservations about all candidates, even the ones you vote for. As opposed to needing to feel completely comfortable with whomever you vote for, which was how I felt in 2016, when I effectively cast a non-vote for Jill Stein.
Again, I think its better to have serious reservations about all candidates, even the ones you vote for. As opposed to needing to feel completely comfortable with whomever you vote for, which was how I felt in 2016, when I effectively cast a non-vote for Jill Stein.
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And it also seems like social progressivism and political progressivism get conflated often, but maybe I'm overlooking something.
That is, it seems like much of the anti-Trump sentiments are grounded in socially progressive convictions, rather than opinions about policy. At least, the former seems to be more outspoken than the latter.
And how does social progressivism translate into political/policy-based progressivism?
That is, it seems like much of the anti-Trump sentiments are grounded in socially progressive convictions, rather than opinions about policy. At least, the former seems to be more outspoken than the latter.
And how does social progressivism translate into political/policy-based progressivism?
IdleRich
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I do he's totally cancelled, worse than funk.
luka
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hmmm clever... this will put the fbi off the scent once that mail bomb arrives at his home
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Banished to the woods.
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Nah I respect that as well. I believe thinking is far more important than voting.
shiels
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this is gus doing banter
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You control my account? Woah.
linebaugh
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and more important than thinking? the blade
sus
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Make America Yonic Again
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I think voting is a good example of a higher order feedback mechanism, where higher-order almost necessarily means lower-resolution. Its economic, seeing as if the civic feedback forms were more robust, they would be exponentially more complicated to integrate, no?
Does our current civic feedback protocols approach the optimal balance, or does it merely occupy a suboptimal equilibrium?
Does our current civic feedback protocols approach the optimal balance, or does it merely occupy a suboptimal equilibrium?
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People's beneficence can be corrupted, and the systematic policies can harbor traces of such corruption, but the kind of higher order system I have in mind is supervenient to the human will, hovering above it rather than being entirely subjected to it. This is why I don't capitalize the "t" in "them".
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I think systems tend toward them regardless of human will, but that human will can play a sort of executive role, capable of administering and hastening this development. The microcosm would be the individual psyche, how a person can willfully optimize the health of their body, in a more efficient manner than just floating will-lessly through an environment, but they can just was well hinder it or completely destroy it.
I think the ongoing transition to a digitized world could be interpreted as the systematization of this executive function, an optimization of the optimizing force.
I think the ongoing transition to a digitized world could be interpreted as the systematization of this executive function, an optimization of the optimizing force.