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Tuesday: walks, groceries, piano lessons
Sep. 17th, 2019 06:49 pmI got a walk with J. I went grocery shopping. I walked with M. I had a lovely convo with J. (Different J.)
I picked up A. (got a ride partway with J., who I went walking with earlier). She told me about Cameo.com, which is fascinating! I love monetization strategies the helps smooth the curve out between super star and nobody; it seems wrong that so many household names struggle to get any money out of their accomplishments.
I have not been commenting much on the rolling disaster that the Epstein / MIT connection has been experiencing. MIT media lab has been such a useless ... whatever it is, it does not make me sad to see the head of it have to step down for taking money from Epstein. Super weird to see Ackman enter into it in an effort to protect his new wife, Oxman. Obviously, nerds everywhere fail to appreciate (hey, I suffer from the same flaw) just how it is going to look when their communications are read by an unexpectedly wide audience. Still. It did not help anyone for him to try to protect her.
The latest, tho, I sort of feel compelled to comment on. The troll has finally departed the AI lab! While someone (realistically, probably 6-12 someones) bashed on RMS enough to convince him that it is damaging for children when adults have sex with them, he has not yet progressed to the point where he could recognize that 70something Minsky having sex with a teenager was absolutely unjustifiable, no matter what term was used to describe it. Here is a slashdot summary of what got the troll moved along away from the younger people, or at least, where MIT’s umbrella might have gotten its spokes caught in whatever happened next.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/360908
“Stallman argued that "the most plausible scenario" is that "she presented herself to him as entirely willing"”
This is part of a larger argument that I am uninterested in. My point is simple: in what universe does a 70 something year old nerd like Minsky think that a 17 year old known associate of a middle-aged billionaire coming on to him could count as willing? The fact someone so young was orbiting a middle aged man and then coming on to even older associates of rich dude should have set off every single red flag that Minsky owned. Which was apparently none, and Stallman probably has never encountered a red flag anywhere.
Honestly, Minsky must have seen his share of gurus and hangers on go by over the decades. How did he not recognize male power over younger women? Probably the same thought process that requires us to explain to people that unconscious people cannot consent.
Housecleaning continues apace.
I picked up A. (got a ride partway with J., who I went walking with earlier). She told me about Cameo.com, which is fascinating! I love monetization strategies the helps smooth the curve out between super star and nobody; it seems wrong that so many household names struggle to get any money out of their accomplishments.
I have not been commenting much on the rolling disaster that the Epstein / MIT connection has been experiencing. MIT media lab has been such a useless ... whatever it is, it does not make me sad to see the head of it have to step down for taking money from Epstein. Super weird to see Ackman enter into it in an effort to protect his new wife, Oxman. Obviously, nerds everywhere fail to appreciate (hey, I suffer from the same flaw) just how it is going to look when their communications are read by an unexpectedly wide audience. Still. It did not help anyone for him to try to protect her.
The latest, tho, I sort of feel compelled to comment on. The troll has finally departed the AI lab! While someone (realistically, probably 6-12 someones) bashed on RMS enough to convince him that it is damaging for children when adults have sex with them, he has not yet progressed to the point where he could recognize that 70something Minsky having sex with a teenager was absolutely unjustifiable, no matter what term was used to describe it. Here is a slashdot summary of what got the troll moved along away from the younger people, or at least, where MIT’s umbrella might have gotten its spokes caught in whatever happened next.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/360908
“Stallman argued that "the most plausible scenario" is that "she presented herself to him as entirely willing"”
This is part of a larger argument that I am uninterested in. My point is simple: in what universe does a 70 something year old nerd like Minsky think that a 17 year old known associate of a middle-aged billionaire coming on to him could count as willing? The fact someone so young was orbiting a middle aged man and then coming on to even older associates of rich dude should have set off every single red flag that Minsky owned. Which was apparently none, and Stallman probably has never encountered a red flag anywhere.
Honestly, Minsky must have seen his share of gurus and hangers on go by over the decades. How did he not recognize male power over younger women? Probably the same thought process that requires us to explain to people that unconscious people cannot consent.
Housecleaning continues apace.