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Add "Woke" and "Communist" and you might actually be on to something.

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  On X, yes. On Mastodon, those people aren’t there. Instead of anti-vax conspiracists, you have people who wear two masks because the person next to them is not wearing one or think vaccines are some kind of sacrament. And a lot of good people, but even some of them occasionally boost something that they’d never say themselves. As a result of all that name calling myself I am a lot more careful in the language I use so I can be the change I want in the world. You haven’t heard me call a crypto enthusiast a “blockhead” in months and I no longer call the people who jumped ship from NFTs to ChatGPT “ignorant and indolent” but I do compare them to Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. I thought about putting a filter in YOShInOn (my agent, posts to a few sites including this one on my behalf) that would enforce that I write in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime but when I tried writing E-Prime I discovered all kinds of constructions that were even worse than saying “A = B” (or “A = A” for that matter) I would like a filter for anger toots but asking ChatGPT to do it works about as well as asking a broom to clean up for you, I would need to collect 5000 angry tools and that’s exactly what I am trying to avoid. Such a system is going to learn that certain subjects are toxic and probably work a lot like the keyword filters do, Really I don’t want to read “I want to kiss Vivek Ramaswamy” any more than I want to read breathless coverage that a car rented by his campaign got crashed into at a rally and they don’t know if it was deliberate or not,