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Created: 2025-02-05 19:01:11 UTC

The more I think about it, the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct:

* free speech good
* starting companies and making good products good
* monopolies bad, vendor lock-in bad
* democracy good
* greed bad
* trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad
* cosmopolitan humanitarian values, caring about faraway people, etc good

Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful


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