I was born in 2000, used a button phone all my life, and still do.
The ethos here is good.
(It overlaps with the ethos of Physical Media, which I technically disagree with because the digital part of digital media is not the problem, but the direction is good.)
This also largely overlaps with laws about The Right to Repair and consequences thereof, which people are putting effort into, as part of the larger fight against techno-feudalism.
Very interesting post. This is a topic similar to one i think about often. Several things:
(I only read a couple of the comments, maybe missed something important.)
1. It's possible to say "yeah, a lot of people are irrational and don't care about truth, that is bad and disappointing". You make it part of your world model used for predictions (in fact you probably should). This change to the world model might predict that some plans/actions/rules you thought are good actually aren't, because you can't rely on people to act rationally. But that itself doesn't... (read more)
I will point something not directly related to what most people are arguing about, but that I still feel is important (I hope I am not Hobby Horsing. But this requires misinterpreting to create disagreement, which I am hopefully not doing).
"Scott Alexander’s applications of game-theoretic concepts to politics (as well as his pushback on wokeness) made him one of the most influential political thinkers of the last decade".
There is an important problem with this phrase.
Some people in my place would say "this phrase takes a stand in the culture war, which is ... (read more)