I refuse to drink the intellectual learned helplessness koolaid.

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The takes on this are driving me up the wall. Live-streamed executions is an absolutely barbaric idea and a huge reversion??

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Left wing nihilism on here frightens me. There’s this posture of being strangely inured to violence and horror, and thus assuming that is some important part of education that everyone should have to be truly ‘savvy’. No!

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It is hard to have any power at all without risking the kinds of harm you're flagging and often double binds that entangle funding decisions and scales. I wrote about that way back in 2016 when we got into politics: medium.com/@moskov/comp... And in 2024 medium.com/@moskov/work...

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Great summary, thx! I agree that power dynamics are really tricky here and we don't feel comfortable with how it works right now either. I'm actively exploring ideas on how to mitigate some of the concrete problems in action. Still, we are part of an ecology of power: labs, congress, funders, etc

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