• stembolts@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    “The powers that be” doesn’t describe anything, nothing permanent anyway. The only constant is change, and that applies to leadership of any sort. A friendly leadership today is a hostile leadership tomorrow because its all a game of musical chairs. The tools to violate privacy, once created, will fall into all hands. In my opinion, we will learn the easy way… or the unfortunate way.

    That said, I didn’t understand most of your message but responded to the small part that was communicated clearly.

    Finally I’d like to (hopefully constructively) critique of your writing style. In the future I think that you should prioritize understandability and explanation over vocabulary and brevity. What use is a display of swordsmanship to a blind crowd?

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      9 months ago

      When addressing a group of size, you can’t please everyone, as different listeners will have different bits of prior knowledge.

      I assumed an audience on an ML forum would know the difference between an idealist argument and a dialectical materialist one (rather than being a “blind crowd”). If not, that can’t be helped: you can’t customise speech to a varied audience.

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        9 months ago

        I understand your perspective. Hopefully my critique wasn’t overstepping. I’m just one person with some ideas I thought would help you. Maybe so, maybe not! Seems like we’re both trying and that is all we can do. Have a nice day.