I'm getting really tired of the bogus argument _“if we dispense with #religion, worse forms of dogmatism arise to fill the void”_.
No.
First, a technicality: some of the secular forms of fanaticism that _did_ replace #Christianity in History _were themselves religions_. #ChristopherHitchens, #SamHarris and others have in insisted in the religious nature of #Nazism (and my reading of #MeinKampf is confirming that); #Communism from #Mao to #PolPot showed all the signs of a faith-based ideology; #JohnMcWhorter [has mapped all the tenets of a religion onto wokeism](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/books/review/john-mcwhorter-woke-racism.html); etc. So in a sense, #JordanPeterson and others are right when they say that often religion gets replaced with worse stuff… but then they should explain what “worse stuff” they fear could replace the religion that we call, eg, #wokeism!
And even then, this argument is tossed around with no supporting evidence: where's the careful study of enough historical situations to prove that _always_ (or even _often_) when some form of #monotheism lost ground quickly, nihilistic or destructive atheism took its place?
If one removes broken tiles from the floor, of course there's the risk that those holes will get filled with mud or dirt. But it does not _have_ to be that way. One is also free to decide to level the floor with new tiles or with other material — or even to board up that entire corner of the house, and never step on it again.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-problem-with-atheism/id1184022695?i=1000547237925
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One of the best Spanish omelettes I've cooked.
👉 4 large potatoes 👉 1 onion 👉 6 eggs 👉 the best #oliveoil in the world 👉 salt
#omelette #tortilla #SpanishOmelette #tortillaDePatatas #food #Spanish
👉 4 large potatoes 👉 1 onion 👉 6 eggs 👉 the best #oliveoil in the world 👉 salt
#omelette #tortilla #SpanishOmelette #tortillaDePatatas #food #Spanish
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"Lufthansa confirmed that 18,000 flights had been flown empty to keep slots"
@gasull @fidel
I am always moved by anyone who bothers to follow me anywhere, and grateful for the attention of you all (yes, the _three_ of you 😜).
That being said: man… **#RSS!**
Cross-posting; pushing stuff from one place to another; sharing pics on platforms intended for commentary, or long posts on sites mainly used for video… that's always kind of redundant, noisy and awkward — compared to the simplicity and efficiency of #feeds; ie, of automatically receiving everything new.
Don't you subscribe to feeds?
You youngsters are irredeemable… 😜
@torgo I indulge in https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/ , that's my escape mechanism :)
@Pat
That in turn reminds me of “philosophical zombies”, eg https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/david-chalmers-nature-ethics-consciousness/
That's a good answer. I should have qualified my question (“…short of modifying the source code of humans itself?”).
Reminds me of #DavidPearce's “Hedonistic Imperative”.
@tripu “Can sufficiently advanced #tech fix, or at least cancel out, the mendacity and fallibility of any mass of human beings — flaws that have...
In #crypto bros circles I'm the pessimistic spoilsport who reminds everyone that #web3 won't usher heaven on earth and riches for everyone tomorrow — and when amongst clueless normies I'm the optimistic technologist who explains and defends #blockchains and cryptocurrencies.
🤷♂️
The irreducible question that will determine the future (or lack thereof) of #blockchains, #cryptocurrencies, #DAO's, #web3 and even #chartercities is:
**Can sufficiently advanced #tech fix, or at least cancel out, the mendacity and fallibility of any mass of human beings — flaws that have manifested themselves invariably through History?**
Examples:
👉 A friend told me recently that central planning of the economy could actually, finally, work this time, today or in the near future, because increasing computing power means that #Hayek's “knowledge problem” is gone. (I remain sceptical.)
👉 For a while it seemed that #WallStreetBets, the #GME and #AMC wars, etc meant that individual investors could coordinate against the money behemoths to make markets more fair and fix injustices. (I was sceptical from the beginning, and I think I am more or less vindicated by now.)
👉 Are DAO's viable and efficient beyond very limited, fringe experiments?
👉 Can we be confident enough that #ETH, #BTC, etc won't rewrite their chains and change the rules as they go to serve contingent interests?
👉 Can #Communism, #Anarchism, etc actually, finally work this time if we entrust governance to a very sophisticated {network, protocol, chain, algorithm}?
Humans will _always_ be able to override code, or lead the masses to ignore certain segments of code.
@fidel @gasull
Come to think of it, it seems any automated solution is going to imply some complexity, and either maintaining my own service just for that or trusting a 3rd party with some credentials.
Besides, some of my posts I will not want to be cross-posted everywhere, or I'll want to share in a different way or at a different time.
So I don't think I'll be messing with automatic #POSSE in the near future — good ol' copy'n'paste will do for now!
> _“In 1989, 23 of the top 50 (including the top 5) companies ranked by global market capitalization were Japanese firms. By 2019, that number was reduced to just one, at no. 38: #Toyota.”_
@freemo Your advice matches my (very limited) experience.
@fidel @gasull
I haven't decided yet how “noisy” I want to be announcing content between my #blog and the platforms I patronise (mainly #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Goodreads — perhaps also #Twitter for shameful advertising).
But in principle I like the #POSSE approach (“Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”) the most., so I'd be looking at
https://indieweb.org/Mastodon#POSSE
If elegant solutions fail, something like
https://ifttt.com/
might work, too.
