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is the freedom to not talk about Epstein bad?
Fair. it's not a choice is isn't freely chosen. *Voluntary restrictions may be a key. Far more interesting though is the thought that involuntary restrictions could result in setting you free. Take for example addiction: preventing an addict from accessing the source of their addiction might possibly set them free (I've been around enough addiction to know that this only occasionally works...but it does occasionally work).
Back when I was writing a lot of fiction (which I used to do some years ago) I was very conscious that there was never such a thing as a character, but only relationships. So there is no Yossarian, but there is Yossarian-Nately and Yossarian-Milo and Yossarian-reader.
Put simply, in order to be someone, we need someone to be someone for. -Gurwinder
Characters need other characters even if just a reader. While Taleb isn't a character, he's no less reliant on his audience than Yossarian was on me or Orr.
Perhaps this is what I find interesting about artists who make work that isn't what their audience wants. Finnegans Wake is, on the one hand, preposterous and arrogant and unpleasant -- but it certainly wasn't audience capture. (although, I am now wondering if Joyce's success with earlier works actually led him to try more and more outlandish things until he ended up with Finnegans Wake...which really is impossible. Did Joyce's audience create Finnegans Wake?)
one of the biggest influences on my thinking in the last five years
Has it had more influence on how you act or how you view the actions of others?
Filters work because they make certain tx more expensive, but also filters don't work because they still get mined
preach, brother!
Our laws should be about handling liability, and not causing restrictions to behavior.
This is pretty much my base case. However, in the context of something like Texas' law new law around age verification for websites with sexually explicit material
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If someone hosts a porn site online, I don't think they are liable for the harm done to some child who visits that site. It's the parents who should be making sure their kids don't spend time on the internet looking at porn.
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If someone posts porn to a social media platform, I'd still say it's the parent's job to keep their kids from going to bad places on the internet.
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If some kids youtube channel has a commercial for an adult site, well now that might be the line. Clearly, YouTube should be liable for that harm. What if it's not particularly a kids channel? In general, I think Youtube just doesn't allow adult ads at all for this reason (at least I've never encountered one on YouTube).
But where is the line between 2 and 3?
my wife and I talk about this all the time in the context of our single friends. Committing to a partner definitely creates freedom. Freedom to take risks that you couldn't take with someone who might leave you at a small inconvenience, freedom to be honest with each other, freedom to let your guard down and be vulnerable, and on and on.
In English "freedom" is maybe too blunt a word. I'm sure there are nuances here that other languages may have the words for.
I'll admit, I don't know enough about game theory to wrap my head around this. But, maybe there is something here that even my ignorant mind can catch: repeated interactions change the game. I've been positioning this whole conversation as one-off interactions. How does our understanding of freedom change in the context of an ongoing relationship? Freedom in the context of marriage might be a fruitful place to spend some time. Thanks for bringing me to this.
While I agree with you, I also have a feeling every generation feels like they are the last normal ones. Isn't the trouble, though, in the perceptions of the things: sure some people feel freedom means freedom to insult, but what if I'm doing something that is interesting and good for me, but insulting to others (drawing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad for humorous purposes)?
Even more troublesome is that some people seem to think freedom means never having to feel insulted. It is messy.
I don't think it's the freedoms that are bad. It's bad people who do bad things.
But to some extent, they can't be separated. Guns don't kill people, people do is reasonable, and yet when trying to figure out how to stop people from killing each other, people seem likely to vote for controlling guns.
If my neighbor wanted to walk around their yard naked all the time, I'd certainly have a problem with that.
Here's another example: someone does a reckless thing like trying to chop down a large tree on their property by themselves. Let's assume they don't know what they are doing, but they don't want to hire a arborist. The tree might fall on my house. If there's no law against chopping down large trees, I have to wait until they accidentally smash my house to have any recourse. However, in the case of the existence of a law that says no one can chop down trees over a certain size unless they hire an arborist, I could potentially stop them before they smash my house.
On the other hand, the tree-felling might go perfectly well, despite their amateurism, and I don't like laws that impinge upon freedom because of a lowest-common denominator assumption (just because most people can't safely fell a large tree, doesn't mean I can't).
These are the cases I'm curious about. Not selling tobacco products to minors is another. Ideally, parents would be responsible for the behavior of their children. Why should merchants be tasked with enforcing good health?
Cashu brrr is interesting. I can see people printing out paper ecash notes as a fun gimick and it actually might be a good outreach tool. Maybe.
this is the big one, but what about the small ones? freedom to spit on the sidewalk? freedom to smoke in a restaurant? freedom to run a large diesel generator near a playground? freedom to teach my kids to be sociopaths?
Howdy! Would be super curious to hear some stories about how you've gone about building your collective!
Do you have any ideas for incorporating sats into your family life (paying kids for chores, sat bounties for achievements, etc)?
One thing I struggle with is that my kids feel like dollars are more useful because it's easier to buy the things they want with dollars. I can talk to them about saving in sats and such, but to a 6 year old, being able to buy a personal ice cream with money they earned from chores is pretty powerful.
I'm just finishing up getting our third child fully reading on their own. We're doing it in English, but I have a feeling some of the following tips will translate to most reading:
- We used the same textbook for all the kids (Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons)
- I read out loud a LOT to them, so by the time they are old enough to start on reading, they already think it's pretty fun
- I started each of them sometime after they turn 4 and they all got uninterested with it at some point during that process. No worries! we took a break from reading lessons for a while (maybe a few months) and then try again. One child took to it pretty quickly (my daughter), the boys took a bit longer -- my youngest is working on his fourth attempt at going through the book and it seems to be clicking this time.
- I've never done any phonics stuff, although sometimes when they are struggling with a certain phonic, I'll write out a whole bunch of words that use it and we will practice read that for a few days in a row.
- It's a mixture of gentle pressure helping them get through when it's hard and knowing when to back off a little so it doesn't become a chore or something they don't like.
- It's easier than you think. consistency wins!