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> No disagreement here. There should be an independent monitoring body, something like the SEC.

We may disagree even more than you think ;)

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I was pointing out the self-own: that your stated position motivates an outcome orthogonal to your values.

Which of course implies that I successfully inferred your accelerationist libertarianism from context. :)

> Which of course implies that I successfully inferred your accelerationist libertarianism from context. :)

I mean, I did use 3 out of 8 points to rag on ethicists.

Wait till you find out Nozick was an ethicist, that libertarianism is a position within political philosophy (which in turn is a generalization of ethics.)

I’m a programmer, not a philosopher, so I never actually heard of him, but from his Wikipedia entry I learned that “he rejected the notion of inalienable rights advanced by Locke and most contemporary capitalist-oriented libertarian academics,” and let’s just say it didn’t say anything about him getting fired from his job.

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