http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0501/0501cov.htm Old article about disability.
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My boy Nate at it again
This week's "The Letter" discourse makes me want to hit my head against a wall but I feel like I can't just ignore it. All the usual Cancel Culture battles are happening for the billionth time, but this time the whole thing seems to have been more or less concocted by terfs to get more reasonable people's names alongside J.K.R.s as a gotcha. I'm not a "cancel culture isn't real" guy but it's pretty exhausting to see both the Freeze Peach bullshit and the sillier reactions to it.
Angery rant about The Letter by Julius "The Intern" of ALAB Series fame. This kind of hot take is absolutely not gonna convince anyone who thought the letter was good but it is somewhat cathartic, and more productive than the 18yo Twitter users trying to cancel Noam Chomsky or whatever.
Cory Doctorow: Full Employment
Good old Cory. I'm sure this article will make multiple sets of people quite mad - certainly the AGI LessWrong types, and also the more utopian Fully Automated Luxury Communism types.
I more or less agree with this on both fronts, though I think he's probably a bit strong / too reductionist in declaring the "two possible paths" of what is going to happen when the reality of 30% unemployment hits Western countries. Maybe I'm just pessimistic but what if things just go on as they are and don't change, and we just have an even bigger underclass than before?
Unrelated, Doctorow appeared on TrashFuture recently and it was quite interesting to see the clash between his SocDem-ish politics and the more hardcore materialist politics of Alice Caldwell-Kelly.
Doctorow doesn't believe in the acceleration to AGI narrative, and further he's skeptical of the commonly predicted automation apocalypse that is allegedly going to remove the need to work and either destroy society or save it.