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Wolf Tivy
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Berkeley, California
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Build the machinery of virtue. Editor at @palladiummag
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Wolf Tivy
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Maybe it's just me, but marginal square feet have fairly low impact on my housing utility function. In fact smaller space would still be outweighed by safer streets.
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lol who cares. What counts is the roof, bathroom, and kitchen.
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The parade dress uniform of the Reformed Unified Intelligence Service shall include a tinfoil baret.
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Wolf Tivy
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The job of an intelligence agency is to make conspiracy theories for the state. This is a critical capacity and a serious base of power.
Don't let anyone tell you conspiracy theorizing is never appropriate.
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They are a ruling class, but claim to be the demos, so when the actual demos wants brexit, they short circuit in hilarious ways. Brexit, whatever else it is, is a reductio on the whole scheme they've got going on over there.
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Careful with those democratic premises. They are also the ruling class, which is always a minority.
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LOL fair enough. Still, is it framed as information, or command? There's something interesting happening here
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Wolf Tivy
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Are nonviolent communication, and its opposite, command language, not merely context-defined tools, but context defining? Do they have an activist effect on culture, creating more liberal or illiberal modes of thought and social organization?
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Sometimes inappropriate, but what if we just start using command language more, and force the issue?
Are we then forced to redevelop and explicate our contextual authority structures? Does a society that uses lots of imperative language necessarily develop chain of command?
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IMO we underuse the imperative, and shoehorn things into declarative that we really mean to be imperative.
"It is preferred that employees attend this seminar". Disgusting.
We pretend to be free agents, but a society of such is a contradiction, so we invent passive aggression.
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Many things can be phrased either way. You can make a declarative appeal to ethical principles or certain truths, or an imperative appeal to your own contextual authority.
Which feels more natural says a lot about our political culture.
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There is much political ontology baked into linguistic matters like imperative vs declarative phrasings.
"I would prefer you do X" vs "Please do X".
The former implies a world of free agents, trading information. The latter implies a social structure of command and obey.
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Accept the mantle of rule. Dictate your will, and let your interlocutor decide what to make of it.
Avoidance of the naked imperative considered harmful.
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They're just questions, Leon.
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Why though? Physics favors no particular perspective. Why force an artificial idea of objectivity onto it? If you're going to choose one perspective or the other, let's choose what is most interesting or useful explicitly for that reason.
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Wolf Tivy
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To be constructive, a better way to state it would be to note that it is an interesting alternate perspective, to view the motion of the solar system from the reference frame of the galaxy.
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Wolf Tivy
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>implying one inertial reference frame is any more "accurate" than another twitter.com/SteveStuWill/s…
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Wolf Tivy
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I've been using DDG for 10 years. Definitely good stuff.
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Wolf Tivy
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Solid oxide fuel cells are real, but commercialization is still speculative. Lots of engineering issues to work out. I haven't done a dive recently. They may or may not beat engines in the long run.
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Electric vehicles, especially if batteries get cheap, will be great. They are much simpler and better from an engineering perspective. But hydrocarbon engines aren't going anywhere either, because sometimes you need that 100x energy density.
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