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\|	\|	escalatingidentity.wordpress.com Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation \| escalating identity	4.8 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	by CROATOAN, April 2012 Contents Synopsis I. Identity-Based Organizing II. Institutional Struggles Over the Meaning of Anti-Oppression Politics a. On the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC), Again b. Politicians and Police Who Are "Just Like Us" c. Anticapitalism and the Material Reproduction of "Race" and "Gender" d. The Racialization of Rape and the Erasure of Sexual...	4.8 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	blogs.swarthmore.edu Easily Distracted \| Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects	4.6 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	[AI summary] The text presents a detailed critique of the arguments made by scholars like Daniel Moynihan and Charles Murray, who have attributed poverty and dysfunction among certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States to cultural factors. The author challenges these views by highlighting the diversity and complexity of African and African diasporic societies, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities. The author argues that these groups cannot be characterized as uniformly collectivist, authoritarian, or lacking in individual ambition, and that such portrayals are based on flawed and often racist assumptions. The critique extends to the broader concept of 'cultural difference' as a way to e...	4.6 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	omniorthogonal.blogspot.com Omniorthogonal: Moldbuggery	4.8 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	I was just talking about nerd politics , and lo and behold, we have a fresh spasm of geek outrage to examine. Strange Loop, a hip technical ...	4.8 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	opentheory.net Against functionalism: why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach - Opentheory.net	27.4 parsecs away Travel
\|		[AI summary] The text presents a critique of the Foundational Research Institute's (FRI) approach to defining and addressing suffering and s-risks, with a focus on the philosophical and metaphysical challenges of functionalism. The author, Mike Johnson, argues that FRI's reliance on functionalism leads to intractable problems, such as the inability to provide a clear, disagreement-mediating definition of suffering. He outlines several objections to FRI's position, including the ineffability of suffering, intuition duels, convergence requirements, and the mapping of consciousness to physical systems. Johnson suggests that FRI should consider alternative frameworks, such as computational hierarchies, to address these issues. The text also references various so...	27.4 parsecs away Travel