TrentonZero on Nostr: I wasn't the one asked, but hey, what's a social network without butting in? I would ...
I wasn't the one asked, but hey, what's a social network without butting in?
I would go with a combo of:
* It's one of the few industries where an entry-level employee has enough market power that a very small minority can dictate the rules. (Nassim Taleb has a good essay on this as a more abstract phenomenon: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 )
* Lots of people have been brought up to mistake "nice" for a first order virtue. But, it's not. It's more like a rule-of-thumb. In 99% of ethical dilemnas, especially where groups are concerned, "nice" gives a good approximate answer, and overworked teachers have an incentive to prefer it over actual goodness. But being faced with intolerant activists who demand cheap virtue signals is one of those places where "nice" just comes up with the wrong answer.
* Speaking of cheap virtue signalling: Heretic-hunting is a very, very tempting form of self righteousness. Once holding the right opinion becomes recognized as virtuous, it is a very easy virtue to master and feel self-righteous about. Everyone realized pretty easily that this is a perennial temptation for the religious. But, it's also true about any flavor of historicist ideology (of which progressivism is one): all your sins are washed away because you have "accepted Christ as your"...sorry, I meant..."on the right-side of history." (If you recognize hints of Voegelin here, I tip my hat to you. And if you don't....there are answers hiding in the Google search of that name.)
>From: (zerosequioso) at 08/13/22 19:58:42 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
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>unclebobmartin (npub19mu…jnft) As someone who's been in technology for a while, do you have insight into why wokeism is so widespread in the industry? It now seems almost uncommon for people to *not* advertise their pronouns.
I would go with a combo of:
* It's one of the few industries where an entry-level employee has enough market power that a very small minority can dictate the rules. (Nassim Taleb has a good essay on this as a more abstract phenomenon: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 )
* Lots of people have been brought up to mistake "nice" for a first order virtue. But, it's not. It's more like a rule-of-thumb. In 99% of ethical dilemnas, especially where groups are concerned, "nice" gives a good approximate answer, and overworked teachers have an incentive to prefer it over actual goodness. But being faced with intolerant activists who demand cheap virtue signals is one of those places where "nice" just comes up with the wrong answer.
* Speaking of cheap virtue signalling: Heretic-hunting is a very, very tempting form of self righteousness. Once holding the right opinion becomes recognized as virtuous, it is a very easy virtue to master and feel self-righteous about. Everyone realized pretty easily that this is a perennial temptation for the religious. But, it's also true about any flavor of historicist ideology (of which progressivism is one): all your sins are washed away because you have "accepted Christ as your"...sorry, I meant..."on the right-side of history." (If you recognize hints of Voegelin here, I tip my hat to you. And if you don't....there are answers hiding in the Google search of that name.)
>From: (zerosequioso) at 08/13/22 19:58:42 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
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>unclebobmartin (npub19mu…jnft) As someone who's been in technology for a while, do you have insight into why wokeism is so widespread in the industry? It now seems almost uncommon for people to *not* advertise their pronouns.