On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:38 -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
> The original (implicit) question was *does* Openness amplify > Inequality as a matter of course? Reading over the essay again, all she seems to notice are abusive misogynistic trolls. I guess if they could be compartmentalized and kept from seeing the evidence of each others fine work that would be more like equality? Can't we just promise to make examples out of a few of them from time to time and call it good? I guess it depends whether you really care about norms in the larger population, or whether you have the assumption that most of life (esp. now) involves about filtering out the noise to find the signal, and that it won't always be easy to find. The opportunities for working in tech are way, way better now than when I was a kid. Today a young person has at their disposal hundreds of millions of lines of free source code to learn from, improve, and exploit, and direct ways to engage with the companies that maintain that code. Yes, there are still big distinctions between the haves and the have nots, but there are more ways to move up. That's way more interesting than worrying about the cretins that Ms. Taylor has observed. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
