Oddbean

So you are saying no to freedom of speech. People are responsible for how they react and act according to what they hear. That's where accountability needs to be put. Accountability needs to be based on people's non-verbal actions, not what they say or don't say.

I might disagree with you but I’m willing to defend your right to speak whatever you might find peace with because I value freedom of speech. So, don’t shut up but feel free to show your ignorance as much as you like

That's the only sensible thing you've said. It's good to speak. Keep doing it. That's how we learn. If one person ignores you or bans you, go somewhere else. You are in control of you. Do what you can to have debates and be heard.

It's true that freedom of speech comes at the price of people being able to spread misinformation and say hurtful things. But that is a fair trade off compared to the alternative which is allowing a group of people the ability to dictate what can and can't be said. That power when wielded in the wrong hands has proven time and and time again throughout history to lead to authoritarianism, tyranny and suffering far greater than anything free speech can enable. And I completely disagree with you that an AGI ruler will make this better as they will be subject to the same biases or worse, biases we don't understand. Not to mention that we are very very far away from AGI. When it comes to disinformation, the best cure against that is education. It's time we as a society stop outsourcing our thinking to others. We must take the time to continue our learning every day, only then can we maintain freedom of speech and combat misinformation. Not by letting a group of elites decide what is the Truth™

The idea that a benevolent ruler or AGI would police speech better than a decentralized network of free people in reality, is the animistic fallacy. She, like many others, is completely beholden to that and a number of other fallacious ideas that fail to respect the law of causality or her own accountability to the real conditions of life.

What happened to your idea that blocking people is censorship? Sounds like you want the right to invade other people's spaces but to also be able to stop other people from talking, just not let anyone else do it to you. nostr:nevent1qqsgm0ercj8ygg53evw3zzcn00n37vvwjgkrdrdemhemt8vhm7vw8nspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygqd332k7nu9spgg5pt7ufqqp2mr4muf4ckralwgqx9wf5k88h756upsgqqqqqqscvsuu3 If you think that blocking someone from your own feed or community is censorship from the platform, there is no reasoning with you. And if you want to never be blocked but have the ability to block others FROM MORE THAM JUST YOURSELF, then you are doubly effed in the head.