Reminds of Daniel Everett's work with the Pirahã, who have non-existent recursion in language. Unfortunately one exception in biology is not evidence of generality. Proof by contradiction works in math, doesn't work very well in biology. Doesn't even work well in physics e.g. room temperature super conductors are extremely rare even if they exist.

Physically you can make people do anything, but what they want internally is a completely different matter and there is no way today to probe that.

Let's assume there is a large section of people who can only love their direct off springs, the author could perhaps claim that that would be immoral - is this gaslighting or what. What's the end game for this kind of stuff - it's to eliminate all preferences - quite akin to slavery.

> What's the end game for this kind of stuff

A world of tortured social compliance. I am onboard with doing all sorts of socially unacceptable things. My solution is a torrent of lies.

Lasers, technically, cannot have a religion.

You could say they have a coherent belief system.

They can and do - they are strict agnostics.

Do they cost more or less after that

more costly to maintain due to extended set of requirements

The writers better be vegan if they're worried about wildlife impact from the launch.

Buddy's gotta succeed at his OKRs at any cost.

Gotta pad that performance review/promo packet.

I suppose "destroy the open web to get promoted at Google" is technically a principle.

To make life more miserable for everyone except members of the new aristocracy and bourgeoisie is a divine principle now?

Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

In a twist of fate, Musk launches a PayPal competitor after buying the X.com domain from PayPal.

Also, not just emojis, your innocuous comments on a random forum (like this one) could probably also be considered contacts.

Retroactively everyone should look through all the emoji contracts they've signed.

Give me a million dollars. Thumbs up emoji.

Now you're in for a million dollars.

This is not how contracts work. Please do not be so obtuse.

Existing users, I guess, are all finding it unsettling. Except maybe the Salacious Crumbs out there, cackling at his every action.

But new users can currently read only 300 tweets before they are rate limited for 24 hours, and that is all of about 12-15 average threads.

Why would they find it less unsettling? It's not a competent product at this point.

Edit - frequent, not existing users. I'm an infrequent user, do not find it unsettling at all. It'll get fixed soon.

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Its a term for manufactured moral conformity.

Morality is good. Conformity is bad if it is in appearance. Manufactured moral conformity is problematic.

Why not call that "MMC"? Why is it called "Woke"?

It's an attempt to poison the well of leftist discourse by co-opting and inverting its terminology, rendering it self-defeating. It seems to be a common tactic by the right, and surprisingly effective. It's now all but impossible to use the word "woke" in good faith because it only communicates the pejorative images created by the right.

I've seen entire threads debating the meaning of "woke" and the vast majority of them were bad-faith definitions, and anyone mentioning the actual etymology or cultural context of the term would be shouted down and told they were simply incorrect. The sheer amount of aggression and effort that's been put into the destruction of this one word is fascinating to see.

I guess it's a similar thing as "Fake News". Yes there are lots of fake news but it is the providers of actual fake news that mostly cry about that. It is those who say they are simply providing "Alternate Facts". Not facts but alternate facts.

It is "projection" right? Co-opt the terms to make them meaningless. I wonder if there are studies or books about it, and how the society at large could fight back against dis-information.