They’re about to have a whining mob of harrassing dinks declare that they must be shut down and driven from the internet, just like FtB: Mark Chu-Carroll deplored tech industry sexism. It was a good network while it lasted, but now that we’ve learned it’s a hot house full of flowering manginas, well, so long.
Category Archive: Ethics
Mar 26 2013
Ask an ethicist!
Janet Stemwedel has some opinions on Adria Richards and PyCon. Rational opinions based on a sound understanding of ethics.
Mar 24 2013
Speaking of terribly rude women…
Now Amina has disappeared. The 19 year old Tunisian Amina who posted a topless photo of herself with the slogan “my body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour” has disappeared. Most likely her family have kidnapped her and taken her to an unknown location, (earlier reports mentioned a psychiatric hospital). …
Mar 24 2013
Ars Technica weighs in on Adria Richards, and flaunts a double-standard
Here we go again. The Adria Richards story has settled into a couple of common themes, and Ars echoes the conventional wisdom. I’m very disappointed in this lazy editorial. First, look at this nonsense: Let’s start by spreading the blame where it’s deserved: on nearly everyone involved. The “Boy’s Club” mentality is thankfully no longer …
Mar 24 2013
Science makes you good! (Sometimes.)
You’ve probably heard this explanation for the virtue of religion: that even if god doesn’t exist, belief in god (or some other monitoring authority) makes people behave more morally. There have been many experiments that have actually shown that people are nicer or more generous when exposed to religious concepts, such as this one by …
Mar 17 2013
Hamza Tzortzis is playing gotcha with Lawrence Krauss now
After that debate between Tzortzis and Lawrence Krauss that was overshadowed by the disgraceful anti-egalitarian exhibition of Muslim misogyny, iERA is now trying a new tactic: they’re releasing tiny snippets of the debate that they believe they can spin into anti-Krauss sentiment. Here’s a perfect example, Krauss’s reply to a question about the morality of …
Mar 15 2013
It’s the right thing to do
It’s just too bad that what is right is so rarely a political consideration.
Feb 18 2013
Scientific morality: an example
Every once in a while, I hear these stirrings from scientists that there can be an objective morality, and that by following reason and evidence we can achieve great advances in ethics and reduce human suffering. I agree, in part. I think reason and science are the only ways we can implement our goals effectively, …
Feb 14 2013
Note to self: do not trust reviews in the NY Times
John Broder of the NY Times recently reviewed the Tesla Model S electric car, and panned it. Now I know nothing at all about this car; I’m not endorsing or criticizing it myself, and I’m not going to be able to tell you anything about the specs on this vehicle or how well or how …
Jan 21 2013
Should we resurrect the Neandertals?
I was reading an interview with George Church, who was discussing that very same question, and somehow I had to rethink some things. There was the question of technical feasibility, and Church thinks it’s going to be entirely possible in the near future. The first thing you have to do is to sequence the Neanderthal …
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