> And you have to recognize that the players of these games does not intend any single one of these meanings. They intend them all.
Shouldn't we consider the possibility that in many cases their thinking stops at a shallow pseudo-understanding of the reference/"liking the vibes?" Not in the sense that Zuckerberg isn't the kind of person w…
> And you have to recognize that the players of these games does not intend any single one of these meanings. They intend them all.
Shouldn't we consider the possibility that in many cases their thinking stops at a shallow pseudo-understanding of the reference/"liking the vibes?" Not in the sense that Zuckerberg isn't the kind of person who would do that sort of thing ---he did facilitate genocide after all--- but rather in the sense that he's not skillfully and deliberately deploying a reference instead of just echoing a confused third-order echo of that ethos?
Like Zitron wrote, most of these guys are nowhere near as intellectually interesting as they think they are. Doesn't make them any less damaging, but it could be an analytical error to overestimate how much of that danger comes from that sort of sophistication --- or, even worse, to magnify that image.
> And you have to recognize that the players of these games does not intend any single one of these meanings. They intend them all.
Shouldn't we consider the possibility that in many cases their thinking stops at a shallow pseudo-understanding of the reference/"liking the vibes?" Not in the sense that Zuckerberg isn't the kind of person who would do that sort of thing ---he did facilitate genocide after all--- but rather in the sense that he's not skillfully and deliberately deploying a reference instead of just echoing a confused third-order echo of that ethos?
Like Zitron wrote, most of these guys are nowhere near as intellectually interesting as they think they are. Doesn't make them any less damaging, but it could be an analytical error to overestimate how much of that danger comes from that sort of sophistication --- or, even worse, to magnify that image.
touché...