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The central guy comes across as a total psychopath. Twisting everything he says in a strange way. Almost saying the fact that he uses his name on Twitter makes
by brackin 14y ago
The central guy comes across as a total psychopath. Twisting everything he says in a strange way. Almost saying the fact that he uses his name on Twitter makes him self-obsesed. I've just looked at my list of @replies and the last ten are all users using their real names.
They have some of the most absolutely weakest arguments I've ever heard yet get away with it. It's as if they don't care if the thousands watching the video aren't convinced at all but if they can annoy Jon they have succeeded.
He says the reason he annoys people by making these accounts is because "I want to understand the algorithms that are used by wall street". These aren't really 'robots', they're just scraping wikipedia and pushing out terms in tweets it believes are relevant, which this has shown aren't.
"I don't know how you relate to the economic collapse". I don't understand this guy, I don't know if they're acting but if they're serious then I'm worried.
- stfu 14y agoThe video has almost some Troll bait feeling. Found it highly amusing how concerned that guy becomes about the communication of his non existent eating habits on Twitter.
- ecocentrik 14y agoThey were just making fun of Jon Ronson. I think their arguments hold up just enough to make Jon's request to kill the bot sound a little absurd. That seems to be their only objective in the video. I thought the bit about trading algorithms and how it relates to what they're doing was a little over the top. The analogy to photography made by the guy on the left at the end of the video was genius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum