Katoshi Katamoto @katoshi@qoto.org
A developer and technologist who advocates for the development of liberative technology (libtech) as a social right.
Euclid is purported to have told Pharaoh, "there is no royal road to geometry". What he meant was that geometry IS the royal road itself. Likewise, there is no shortcut to mathematics, because mathematics IS the shortcut.
The literary mind comprehends that some important truths about the human condition can only be truly expressed by myth. As the great mathematician, Blaise Pascal, observed: "the heart has its reasons that the mind does not know".
Just because something is a myth doesn't mean that it's not true.
@freeschool I will repeat my main point again. Technology per se is morally neutral: fire is neither good or bad in itself, but the moral element is supplied by human actions. That being said, there are certain technologies that though they may be developed for nefarious purposes may have qualities that can be more easily diverted towards human freedom (the decentralized nature of internetworking is a case in point).
I don't swallow black pills. Sorry.
@Twoinchdestroya says the turd who grabs my ass on the internet. LOL
@freeschool The internet is not a good example since it was a child of the Military Industrial Complex. It started as a research project of DARPA (DARPAnet). It "escaped" elite control with commercial companies like AOL providing access as ISPs to the general public. Amateur radio would be a better example of a liberative technology.
When I say technology is largely neutral, I include fire and the wheel as technology. They have no intrinsic moral value, only the use to which they are put.
Although technology is largely neutral and the ethics of technology are based on human choices, some technologies are more conducive to promoting freedom than others. I refer to such technologies broadly as liberative technology (#libtech). Decentralized and federated services like the #fediverse are one form of libtech, as is truly decentralized #cryptocurrency like #cardano.
A developer and technologist who advocates for the development of liberative technology (libtech) as a social right.
