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Kate Sills (Bluesky: @katelynsills.com) Profile picture
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Jun 28, 2018 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Great talks so far at #Zcon0 about governance. One thing I think is missing - the venue for "signaling" opinions is a decision in and of itself.
If the signaling mechanism isn't predetermined before the voting issue arises, you can game the system - "this vote didn't count because x, y, z"
The choice of venue needs to happen before the vote even arises, and the outcome needs to be binding.

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Kate Sills (Bluesky: @katelynsills.com) Profile picture
May 28
I give a talk on AI-generated images, and I use this image of the Tank Man from the Tiananmen Square protests as an example of a powerful image that could be called into question.

I've had two organizations in the past year tell me that they didn't want to publish the image 1/ A lone man holding what appears to be shopping bags stands in front of a line of tanks in Beijing, preventing them from moving forward, after pro-democracy activists had been injured and killed in prior days of the protests.
They don't want to publish because they want to remain "politically neutral" or "don't have the budget" to protect themselves against backlash.

There's no such thing as politically neutral. And deliberately not publishing this image is doing the job of authoritarian censors 2/
The reason the Tank Man image is so powerful is because a single, unarmed, defenseless, ordinary person with no chance of success stood in front of a line of tanks that could kill him at any moment (and had killed others) -- and he made a difference. 3/
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Kate Sills (Bluesky: @katelynsills.com) Profile picture
Aug 10, 2022
I've been thinking about this more.

When someone critiques an otherwise good thing because it "doesn't scale," what exactly are they saying? 🧵 1/
The foster care example is interesting, because:

1) Being a foster parent to even just one child is a worthwhile act
2) If you are concerned that there are other children who also need foster parents, you can encourage/persuade/help more people to become foster parents
So when someone says they don't want to do it because it "doesn't scale", what are they saying?

They can't be saying that foster care isn't a solution for all the kids who need temporary parents, because, obviously, it is if you have enough parents (see 1 and 2 above). 3/
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Kate Sills (Bluesky: @katelynsills.com) Profile picture
Jul 15, 2022
.@Aella_Girl makes a really interesting distinction here: aella.substack.com/p/learning-the…
I've noticed this difference too, but from the other side. It seems like what @Aella_Girl identifies as "good thinking" is what people would call executive dysfunction.

E.g. the brilliant Fields Medalist who could not/would not buy a blanket.

quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-…
@Aella_Girl It's a spectrum though, and the extremes are probably both bad.

The actual high-powered executives are so "functional" that they can't stop and smell the roses because that's not "productive".

And the people who find everything equally interesting can't finish anything.
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Kate Sills (Bluesky: @katelynsills.com) Profile picture
Jan 26, 2022
There have been a number of good responses to this thread, but far too many responses were knee-jerk critiques of critique. I think there's an interesting point here. Let's dig in:
First thing, Chaum's DigiCash was heavily patented. There was a version called MagicMoney that got around the patents but only for experimental use. I have no idea what the current state of the patents is, but it's definitely something to look into if this is a serious suggestion
Second, DigiCash required that users rely on a single authority (I'm not going to use the words "central" or "decentralized", because I think people are very confused regarding those terms). The authority is the single source of truth of whether a "coin" has been spent.
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Kate Sills (Bluesky: @katelynsills.com) Profile picture
Nov 30, 2021
Are we too fond of governance? Do we confuse group decision-making with justice and fairness?

Here's why that's the wrong approach, and we should consider the entire spectrum of possible solutions instead:
I'll use two examples of great organizations that I actively participate in. As a participant, I have ZERO participation in group decision-making for these organizations. This is a really important distinction!
The first is an organization called Lasagna Love: home chefs bake lasagnas and give them to people in their local community for free. lasagnalove.org
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Sep 26, 2020
It's really disappointing to realize that hardly anyone can distinguish Trump from Amy Coney Barrett. The political machinery moves on, regardless, even though they could not be more different. By all accounts, Barrett is a brilliant person of character.
Take a look at this letter, written a few years ago, in which all of the Supreme Court clerks who worked with her when she was also a clerk, unanimously said she would be an excellent justice to a high court. law.nd.edu/assets/253073/…
Or this piece by Noah Feldman, who is a Harvard Law Professor:

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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