Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto.

• JollyG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is this really that precise? Reading through these 10 points, many of them seem quite vague to me. Phrases like:

  [. . .] a structural renewal of a wider movement for social autonomy [. . .]

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  [ . . .] emancipatory defence [sic] of the need for communal constraint of harmful technology [. . .]

  could mean a million different things, for example.

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• schmorpel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not if you could express it in a more accessible way without loss of meaning, and especially not if you claim to want a broader public to opt into your cause. Mostly it’s smartassery. I understand that there’s situations where you want to speak about scientific topics and need specific terminology for precision, but this is definitely not it.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m not sure I always buy into the idea that precision is bad and broadly accessible is good. Not in this era of anti-intellectualism at least.

    But I definitely see your point, if you are talking about making things accessible. Vague claims of “they just want to sound smart” smell of anti-intellectualism to me.

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