Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Wisecrack" channel.

  1. It's interesting since it seems that securitization is the framework by which non democratic nations now justify their aggressive acts as well. It could just be that people always use the popular justifications of the day to convince themselves that they are the good guys. But it is worth asking if we (as a global human society) have changed things for the better or worse with our modern security notions or whether we are just doing the same thing we have always done; namely telling ourselves that the other guy had it coming.
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  2. Thank you for being even-handed and showing prominent and respected thought leaders from both sides of the aisle.
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  3. I liked the vid. The concept seems like fun. I am eager to see more of these.
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  4. That’s it. The original avatar asked hard questions without simple answers but korra sidesteps the hard questions its villains ask by Shaymalaning the into cartoon characters. I also hated the part where they destroy the most interesting aspect of the avatar, the past lives. The past avatars were an amazing device to create mentors who were already dead and inherently flawed but created amazing opportunities for introspection and philosophical debate. They could fill a character’s psychological holes but were also hollow and melancholic because they are echos of the dead, not living people.
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  5. Unless "Christian Mysticism" goes in the opposite direction of garden variety Christianity in this matter; the whole AI being made by man rather than god (and thus having no soul), wouldn't that probably make somebody less likely to think their AI was sentient rather than more? Not that it really makes the Google employee (who is arguably too close to the subject to be objective) any more credible if he did.
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  6. My key takeaway is that there are more terms for baby-batter than I had previously imagined.
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  7. Start the video by taking about a book that suggested that the collapse of local layers of social institutions causes loneliness and and then claim capitalism causes social isolation because the government isn't giving people more money? People felt connected and were involved in their communities for millennia before the modern concept of isolation and before federal social safety nets. It would be nice if you spent less time trying to shoehorn every issue into communism vs capitalism. Philosophy started before Camus and it continued even after the 70's.
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  8. Ryan Holliday's book "Trust Me I'm Lying" explains in great detail how both marketers and demagogues have been exploiting the click-based monetization strategy of modern media to push lies as truth verified by experts while the media happily swallows free content indiscriminately. His main argument is that the paid subscription model of news is what pushed America's sensationalist yellow journalism news model to the trust-based system that the internet has since destroyed. It's a great read from a highly philosophical center-left former marketer that explains one of the main reasons why the media and expert class have lost their credibility.
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