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Knowledge is resistance: when someone says, we must do this because the computer, book, data, etc. says we should, it’s hard to resist unless you know better.

Anyone who cares about human freedom and flourishing should concern themselves with Internet freedom.

If it’s easy for others to guess in advance what one’s opinion is going to be, there’s not really much point in expressing it, or, for that matter, expressing it could be efficiently replaced by publicly displaying whatever thinking pattern or formula one is using to generate it.

In any dispute, first criticize yourself or your own side, if you have one.

Some say that tech is neither good nor bad: it’s a force multiplier for whatever goal you have. I’m wondering whether tech is actually virtuous, overall, because 1. creating tech that works forces you to be rational, 2. the best tech is interoperable, with forces communication.