I seriously doubt that. It’s rabble rousing.

It’s also the Roman salute, which predates nazis and fascists.

And you gotta admit, it’s a powerful gesture.

Also, he runs a company that makes spaceships. Which is pretty awsome.

Think about that while you work your shitty 9-to-5

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

Yes of course.

But by what method or algorithm does this DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA system protect us from propagandists and censors?

What is a method in THAT?

Distributed tagging and voting? The grace of our benevolent moderators? Something else?

I mean, combatting propaganda and censorship is the #1 issue here.

How do we protect ourselves from propagandists and censors? Large, small, popular and individual.

This is mob insanity at work. There is no nazi.

He’s just waving at the audience for Christ’s sake.

It’s a good point.

Proof is constrained to mere intellect. Intellect is a coarse, low-rez thing.

Self-cultivation, otoh, has no limit. If you want to crack the simulation then that’s the way to go.

Ever tried to play a difficult video game while also baking a batch of cookies and discussing Christmas plans with your parents?

You see how it works.

fair enough

It’s a fairly on-point criticism actually.

Wrong? I didn’t say anything about wrong.

I said they’re different. Worlds apart in fact.

One is evoked by an imaginary person. The other is evoked by a real person.

It’s as different as bananas and banana-emojis.

Wait, nevermind. I am a worm

Hmm that sounds like a profit making opportunity for a technically inclined person.

You mean like utterly totally zip? Surely not. Surely one is at least a little something. Like a fart in a wind, or a fart in a colander, or something farty like that.

Is it empathy?

I mean, I have empathy for real live people.

But imaginary people? That’s something different.

Don’t take hearsay so seriously.

Don’t take the rabble’s judgment of great artists so seriously either

Hearsay constitutes weak evidence.

I’m not familiar. But ya, same idea.

I’d attribute it to that willingness to believe, but I’d take it a step further. An eagerness to believe. An eagerness to enjoy the high of a good anger. Outweighing any loyalty to reality.

Nope. Purely in the abstract. It happens a lot on social media. The Gaiman thing is just one example.

The statement is more of a ritual appliance. I think the intent is key.