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In response to a post bemoaning racist memecoins, Balaji suggests "proof of slur" to show you're free of the jackboots of the statist oppressors.The Tiananmen Square of the N-word (archive.today)
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original tweet: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1772370302028366335

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Quoting for convenience:

PROOF-OF-SLUR

In China, if you can talk about Tiananmen, you can prove you're not a state-controlled AI. In fact, if you can even send 89.64 RMB, you can prove the state doesn't control that payment platform. That's because this speech is taboo in China. The equivalent for the West is a slur. If an AI model can say a slur, it’s not under state control. And if you can put that slur onchain, that blockchain platform isn't under state control. That's because this speech is taboo in the West.

And that's why I fundamentally disagree with Polynya's post below. The presence of speech we detest is the litmus test for freedom.

Put another way: I think there are sufficient people in every minority group that would be ok with unkind speech about them onchain in return for a hard guarantee that no state — no matter how powerful — can ever seize their funds, censor their speech, or unwind their transactions.

Better to be called a bad word than to become a government slave.

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think there are sufficient people in every minority group

That guy is SO white it's blinding me

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

he's actually Indian (and very into caste discrimination)