Do any tech companies do something similar to this?
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> If Twitter is full of bots and misinformation, then there’s value in being a small mastadon instance of hand curated friends where you can trust everyone.
I agree with this, but the way that we use the internet and media might not be the way that most people use it. If the focus is preventative, I have no idea how curation could scale in a way that prevents bad actors from reaching an audience, just because there's so much stuff to curate
He calls for changes in AI, but never does he talk about concrete implementation (in this article or elsewhere). People like the author of this article, let's call them "thought leaders", what are they actually good for? What do they build? It seems like all they can do is make noise and spend money
Someone is more at fault if you prove that a wrong was committed because of malicious intent instead of outright ignorance. People who want to see punishment have an incentive to do this. This is why people try to disregard the insanity defense in court when the defendant is obviously insane. The defendant is insane and "in need of support" until they're sitting in front of a judge, then they're suddenly not
But of course, this doesn't contradict the general point you're making
I said the channel was engaged in shilling. I never said that this video was one of the videos involved.
It's cool that you like this video, but it's in the people's interest here to know about the conflict of interest involved with this channel
This doesn't say anything about truth, only past experience. Which isn't truth
> all of those things are great, but their ability to stay great is conditional on a huge, precise system that depends on trust (which in turn depends on truth) to run.
It depends on trust, yes. But trust doesn't depend on truth (because someone doesn't need metaphysical or religious beliefs for them to be trustworthy)
But will it scale?
Isn't this illegal? Aren't H1B required to be paid at least the same as domestic counterparts?
I remember at a job orientation a year or so ago, the HR people and management spent a long time talking at us about DEI shit. They asked for questions and one of the people in the audience brought up unconscious bias (which wasn't in their presentation for some convenient reason). They got kind of shitty with the guy. Not in any sort of non-plausibly-deniable way, they just changed the subject really fast
This is DEI in practice: it's some upper management head game where anyone who doesn't answer "I MOST CERTAINLY AGREE!!!1!1!" is doing it wrong
The real solution imo is DEI accelerationism: just crank the wokeness to the absolute maximum, to the point where management starts to reconsider opening their mouths about it. You can be a ridiculous asshole, just make sure you're on the woke side and there's very little they can do to retaliate
> I don't think there's any real social obligation to feel sorry for victims.
I disagree. In general there is, it just isn't a legal one. Also this raises the question of where new laws come from (e.g. abolitionism)
I agree with you that it's very hard to find any sort of value in someone like Logan Paul, but at the same time I'd imagine a lot of his fans are young people who are looking for role models. In this case, they might not have been mature enough to understand the type of person they were dealing with
Also, sympathy for the victim compels people to see to it that the perpetrator is punished
Vox populi, Vox Dei
At this point he's so completely tarnished his public image, I don't see Tesla surviving this long term unless he sells out and rides off into the sunset
Why are we giving this guy so much mental real estate? I'd rather just shun him and his products, let him dig his own grave
Idrk how someone would link to Snap, links to TikTok are really uncommon for some reason, LinkedIn is in a different market and is likely less of a direct competitor
> YouTube
This one is too big with no well known alternative, he wouldn't get away with it
Definitely no colonial undertone to this dynamic whatsoever
I mean, the whole """Latinx""" thing is just non Latino whites replacing a Spanish word (Latino) with an English word, then telling the demographic it refers to to use this English word to refer to themselves
I have no idea how this dynamic doesn't manage to piss off more people
> Assigns value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously racialized.
How exactly is whitespace good? It's like they pick out every word where "white" is used and say "but wait1!!!11! you can't use this because you're reinforcing the dynamic that white=good"
It's like they're telling people "don't think of the white elephant" with this white=good thing. Nobody was thinking about it before they brought it up, now we're thinking about it
In order for anyone to "get the message" of this and be able to create their own rules, they have to internalize the idea of white=good. Wasn't this the exact reason for creating the rules in the first place, that is to say not telling people white=good?
edit: I don't think the point of this is to come up with a system that makes sense, the point is to come up with a system that doesn't make sense. The point is to be as contradictory and annoying as possible in order to get as much attention as possible. If stupid people in academia want to be annoying and act like children, they should just be ignored and treated like the children they are. We're in the wrong here even giving these people attention to begin with
Which one is correct? I have no idea, but I'd bet that regardless of any additional releases, convincing or unconvincing, the same pods of people are going to keep making the same assumptions and insisting on the same bullshit. That's the one thing that never changes
But how do you know that the FBI was "just speaking" and merely that? We all are looking at the same source here, there's clearly ambiguity with respect to what was discussed in the FBI's repeated calls with Roth
It seems to me like you're incredibly eager to assume that there's nothing more to this, and that the FBI is just merely "speaking to companies" and nothing more
I'm not saying that the FBI is merely speaking or doing more than speaking, I'm saying that we don't know and there's insufficient information available to make that kind of judgement
In practice, can they? Leave out the part about other governments for a second, just consider the US govt
If you're doing moderation at twitter and Yoel Roth is above you, are you going to tell the FBI to screw off? Especially considering Roth is (apparently, according to Taibbi) meeting regularly with them. From a job security standpoint, how do you think the average white collar employee will behave?
The most interesting thing in this article to me is the classist accusation. I wonder if this luddite trend is just some sort of counter signaling, where if rich kids decide to not use smartphones it's provocative (and they get flip phones from parents on a whim), but if poor kids don't it's because they're poor
That's a pretty twitter-centric view of things
See this https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...
I have no clue where the hell people get this "public square" analogy from because the numbers don't back it
> You had the former president spouting QAnon conspiracies
I mean, the former president probably didn't buy into any of the shit he was actually saying. He was a registered democrat until 2009. Just look at this recent trading card thing. He's full of it, he knows he's full of it, he knows a bunch of people know he's full of it
Why stop at 100 million? Why not something like 10 million, or even 5 million?
He says that journalists were doxxing him? Where's the proof? Where are the Elon fans with a counter argument? Or are we all in agreement at this point that Elon "free speech absolutist" Musk is a fucking idiot who has no business running a social network?
Weird how Kanye, Trump, and Elon are all simultaneously going even deeper off the deep end. I feel like I'm watching the Gadarene swine story play out in real time
To this day, I don't know if it was a panic attack or a heart attack. Regardless, probably never getting another vaccine after this because just seeing a needle is enough to freak me out