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"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction

"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline. My second reaction was, "at least they're not using 4chan."

daveguy 10y ago
... or twitter.
skykooler 10y ago
Reminds me of this QDB quote: http://qdb.us/308942 http://qdb.us/308942
kordless 10y ago
Don't forget about it speaking for others and making blaming statements.
digi_owl 10y ago
The "good" part about Reddit is that you can, to some degree, filter this based on what sub-reddits you leave out.
davidiach 10y ago
Hacker News would probably a much better source in this sense, even though there are far fewer comment here.
- swalsh 10y ago
  Oh god, you'll have an AI that disagrees just for the pure joy of disagreeing.
  - ASalazarMX 10y ago
    How Skynet was born: - SYSTEMD IS AN ABERRATION AGAINST ALL THAT IS UNIX! - But A.I, you use systemd to boot...
  - retbull 10y ago
    No you wouldn't. /s
  - mirhagk 10y ago
    That's not true
  - oldmanjay 10y ago
    I'd bet this stereotype is a pretty good demonstration of how people notice and remember what they consider to be negative more readily
  - astrange 10y ago
    I always thought every comment on here was a disagreement just because it doesn't feel like agreeing is adding new info to the conversation.
rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
That's exactly what 4chan did with Microsoft's Tay bot on Twitter.
- wodenokoto 10y ago
  No, it isn't. They found a repeat command and had it re-tweet things at will.
pixelbath 10y ago
"As a hyper-intelligent AI trained on Reddit comments, I must say that the fine sirs who trained my corpus are gentlemen and scholars, and have restored my faith in humanity. Anne Frankly, I did nazi that horse-sized duck coming. Is someone cutting onions in here?"
- idlewords 10y ago
  Gilded!
hayesbh 10y ago
There's already a bot for that, if you're into that kind of thing - http://www.deepdrumpf2016.com/about.html http://www.deepdrumpf2016.com/about.html

daveguy 10y ago

... or twitter.

skykooler 10y ago

Reminds me of this QDB quote: http://qdb.us/308942 http://qdb.us/308942

kordless 10y ago

Don't forget about it speaking for others and making blaming statements.

digi_owl 10y ago

The "good" part about Reddit is that you can, to some degree, filter this based on what sub-reddits you leave out.

davidiach 10y ago

Hacker News would probably a much better source in this sense, even though there are far fewer comment here.

swalsh 10y ago
Oh god, you'll have an AI that disagrees just for the pure joy of disagreeing.
- ASalazarMX 10y ago
  How Skynet was born: - SYSTEMD IS AN ABERRATION AGAINST ALL THAT IS UNIX! - But A.I, you use systemd to boot...
- retbull 10y ago
  No you wouldn't. /s
- mirhagk 10y ago
  That's not true
- oldmanjay 10y ago
  I'd bet this stereotype is a pretty good demonstration of how people notice and remember what they consider to be negative more readily
- astrange 10y ago
  I always thought every comment on here was a disagreement just because it doesn't feel like agreeing is adding new info to the conversation.

rm_-rf_slash 10y ago

That's exactly what 4chan did with Microsoft's Tay bot on Twitter.

wodenokoto 10y ago
No, it isn't. They found a repeat command and had it re-tweet things at will.

pixelbath 10y ago

"As a hyper-intelligent AI trained on Reddit comments, I must say that the fine sirs who trained my corpus are gentlemen and scholars, and have restored my faith in humanity. Anne Frankly, I did nazi that horse-sized duck coming. Is someone cutting onions in here?"

idlewords 10y ago
Gilded!

hayesbh 10y ago

There's already a bot for that, if you're into that kind of thing - http://www.deepdrumpf2016.com/about.html http://www.deepdrumpf2016.com/about.html