[FRIAM] A public letter to Nick, cc: any that write here

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Ha! This is why the internet is such an Exquisite Corpse. No Nick, that's not my point at all. It's not even slightly about hypocrisy. It's about *obsolete* conceptions of privacy. It is literally impossible to have a conversation with one other person on the internet, performative or not. Here's a nice way to put it:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5310
"I simply accept that, in the age of instantaneous communication, there are no walled gardens: anything you say to a dozen or more people, you might as well broadcast to the planet."


So, by continuing your salutations, you are not being hypocritical or (merely) performative. You're basing your post on (not even) *wrong* ideas, on a complete misunderstanding of the medium.

On 2/14/21 8:13 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> It grows out of things Glen has said about the implicit hypocrisy of writing to a person while posting to a list.  I think he is wrong about that, but in a right sort of way.  I think one can have a discussion with one person as a performance before an interested audience without being a hypocrite.   The aspiration is to draw the larger audience in and to see the larger scope of the discussion. 

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