tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
Two kinds of #authority, only one of which is the source of authority #bias:
1️⃣ Social authority earned because of a title or position of power or influence: a mayor, a policeman, a priest, a CEO, a rock star. They are, in principle, as fallible as anyone else.
2️⃣ Intellectual authority earned for having been right often in the past and for being specially good at reasoning, as evidenced by a concrete track record of useful interpretations and accurate predictions: #SamHarris, #StevenPinker, #BalajiSrinivasan, your chemistry teacher in high school, that journalist you follow, your friend’s grandmother. All things being equal, it is totally rational to assign more weight to those people’s opinions and advice than to any of the above’s. No bias here.
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#ACX #meetup in #ElRetiro #park, #Madrid (#Spain). 25 Sep 2021.
#AstralCodexTen #SlateStarCodex #ScottAlexander #event
#AstralCodexTen #SlateStarCodex #ScottAlexander #event
“If [#wokeism] has been riding high since the 80s or even earlier, what’s changed? Zeal.”
This. If the #tech behemoths of our day, with more influence and 💵 resources than some nations, don’t stand up for #democracy and basic #humanrights, WHO WILL?
Good #news. Like, LOTS of them.
I did not “discard” her opinion. I said I was sceptical that anyone’s subjective experience is very meaningful per se in these matters. That’s why we have peer-reviewed studies, surveys and statistics in the social sciences. If you think I “discarded” her opinion, well, you are now “discarding” mine by expressing disagreement, too.
I did not criticised her opinion “because she’s pretty”. That is clear to anyone who read my article without prejudice. No-one is responsible for the genes they were dealt, and physique is obviously orthogonal to moral authority and to the quality of one’s reasoning.
What I did is calling attention to the hypocrisy of denouncing that #girls are unjustly expected to be pretty while at the same time
- basing one’s career, success and popularity as a woman on always appearing as pretty as possible everywhere (own web site, MSM, SM, LI) through clothing (or lack thereof), make-up, lighting, suggestive poses and careful post production,
- participating in beauty contests, which as I pointed out are at the very least controversial among #feminists, and definitely an area with enormous #inequality between the sexes, where girls (and only girls) are indeed expected to be (extremely) pretty, by definition,
- focusing her more recent work (as a coach) around #BeautyPageants, targeting women exclusively and explicitly, and glorifying that career option with her language and promotional material.
@tripu pretty woman: I realized girls are expected to be pretty tripu: you are pretty, opinion discarded, until you stop being pretty Men are expe...
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The Award of the " Most Dystopian Photo Of The Year " goes to #Amazon (Tijuana, Mexico) 🤢 (cf. https://restofworld.org/2021/amazon-warehouse-tijuana)
I think #DenisVilleneuve is my new #DannyBoyle, in the sense that his motifs and aesthetics resonate so much with me that I can count on loving almost any new film by him!
You are right. That obsession with “blackface”, “cultural appropriation”, and the innocuous words denoting the absence of colour in languages other than English that far predate the founding of the #USA (ie, in Spanish, “negro”) is a distinctively American illness.
#Blackface can be innocent or even cute in many circumstances (why can’t a child dress up and apply makeup to emulate their favourite fictional character or historical figure?). But all context is ignored.
#CulturalAppropriation is an absurd idea; almost everything surrounding us is cultural, and every culture ever borrowed, imitated, and recycled all the time.
Again: “Obama fue el primer presidente #negro de Estados Unidos”. Get over it.
@aral one of the strangest things i encounter when traveling the world: apparently it’s just american white people that have that knee jerk reactio...
“Boys form the vast majority of all short suspensions (75.4%) and long suspensions (73.9%). […] This appalling reporting bias in the article ignores not only the predominate suspension of #boys from Australian schools, but the impact of this on the disengagement of boys from a hostile and misandrist Australian education system, reflected in the year 7-12 retention rate for female students of 88.0%, compared to 79.3% for boys (again based on NSW government schools 2019 data).”
“This erasure of boys from an analysis that should have acknowledged the extreme gendered nature of exclusion from #schools is consistent with the erasure of men and boys from other extremely gendered issues (suicide prevention, health, family) by ideologically biased academics, policy makers and service providers, and the erasure and abandonment of men and boys from humanitarian programs run by the UN, WHO, UNICEF and NGOs (i.e. Gates Foundation).”
“So, when we see […] the decreasing enrolments of young #men in universities and colleges, we must be aware, not just that the #misandry of our #education systems begins from pre-school education and continues through-out boys education experience, but that this is just one part of a larger endemic trend of erasing men and boys from analyses that should be identifying their urgent needs. An erasure that pretends issues that predominately impact men and boys are #gender neutral, or paradoxically impact women and girl more.”
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
