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by FFRefresh 5y ago
(casual observer passing through..) A few questions for you personally: 1) When you use the term woke-ism, what are you referring to? 2) What would 'going too far' look like, to you in particular?' 3) In your worldview,
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Oh totally, that ad seems malicious. I was just curious about the misinformation angle that you mentioned and how you in particular have been duped or had your opinions changed because of a targeted ad.
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
What misinformation have you been convinced of because you saw a targeted advertisement? Or a slightly different version: What views do you hold that originated from a targeted ad? Or for some more specific examples: In elections, do yo
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
As someone who occasionally reads Bari Weiss, I'm a little confused with your comment. Was your intent here just a straight up ad hominem/name-calling approach, while not addressing any substance of anything? She's 'weak
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
We have a well-funded national security 'state' in the United States, and a decreasing appetite to impose our will abroad. Looking inward/domestically seems like the natural response by organizations that want to stay alive a
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you call that program a 'disaster'?
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Can you point me to the source that says they bought 15k homes in Q2 alone? Zillow says they bought 3,805 homes in Q2: https://s24.q4cdn.com/723050407/files/doc_financials/2021/q2...
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Chapter 11 filings? Look at their balance sheet, they have over $3B in cash. They will be staying afloat comfortably.
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
As someone who doesn't work at Zillow but follows the space a little closer, don't buy into the superficial explanation/meme going around that they failed because of ML. My advice would be to read the earnings call transcript
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Do you think you should face consequences for your username? People of color are more likely to be called that slur, and you are their “operator”? I talked to my BIPOC friends and they think that’s incredibly racist. They say you are dehuma
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Responding here given that you are calling out the 'fallacy' of others. You seem to be making quite declarative statements here that are false: -Buying real estate does not always end badly -Zillow's core business is not
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
> "Patagonia said it began boycotting Facebook platforms 16 months ago because of its claims that the social network spreads hate speech and misinformation about climate change and politics. Mr. Gellert said the company would contin
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I replied on the other post regarding prediction markets. But going to reply here as well because you're highlighting something I find interesting. When you use the term 'random' or 'randomness', are you using that
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
For the record, I don't think prediction markets are perfect and solve all problems. I also don't think solutions/tools should be discarded because they are not perfect. From your examples, it seems like your knock against pr
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I am a fan of systems/tools which reward those with better models of objective reality and the likely future. I am intrigued by prediction markets as a way to give feedback to people's models of reality and how accurate they are i
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I'm assuming we don't have any factual disagreements here, it seems like there is just context ambiguity and we're talking past each other. For instance, when you say 'consumer tech', I don't only think of so
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Interesting perspective and point. Is there a potential risk there for companies with class action suits? Or will the arbitration clauses/class action waivers found in terms of services prevent that from happening?
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I do wonder if there's a culture-wide bug/meme with regards to mental health (and beyond) that makes it hard to push for lifestyle changes at scale. I think one such meme is around agency, with the underlying meme being that human
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Good write-up. What I find most frightening is this is yet another attempt to expand the concept of harm in our laws. "such recommendation materially contributed to a physical or severe emotional injury to any person." W
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Likely to be the case within the scope of “consumer sites/apps used most frequently by users”. But I don’t think that encapsulates all the technology of ‘this era’, as the OP referenced. I don’t think it even encapsulates all of the su
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I'm very skeptical of this take. I don't think that bandwidth is the limiting factor for self-hosting. The limiting factor is that it's not easy/convenient enough to setup such a system, and most users don't care en
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Everything isn't paid for by ads. There are many other revenue models for businesses outside of ads. And ads are not the driver of the desire for businesses to become more operationally efficient (via measuring more things). That drive
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
(I'm not here to defend whatever you think your arguing against, more interested in your thought processes here.) It's weird that on one hand you suggest IQ may be a poor, simplistic measure of whether a student is 'gifted&#x
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I certainly haven't tried extensively yet, so I'm really just speculating here. I think one of the growing challenges to objectively and critically thinking through issues in the West (particularly America) is the growing obsessio
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I think the reasons are certainly cultural. Underneath it all, some of the reasons for adjective-assigning reticence are: 1. An expansion of the concept of 'harm', so that now even casual word usage is thought to be evidence of ca
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
It does seem like our culture (and perhaps humans more broadly) obsesses over the superficial veneer of words/semantics, instead of the underlying reality that the words represent. For example, I believe this conversation around these
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
To follow-up from your first question: What do you think explains the unequal distribution of outcomes WITHIN races in terms of school performance?
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Perhaps my hypothetical news organization sent you an email minutes before posting the hypothetical article, or we sent an email to an address you were unlikely to use, or we called you at a time we knew you wouldn't pick up? Or maybe
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
(this is not a personal attack on you, but merely an attempt to use journalistic tactics (such as taking things out of context) with your words to fit meta-narratives that many news consumers like to read.) The alleged suspect, AlbertCory,
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I'll admit some degree of ignorance on all of the considerations with introducing a new party. But on a surface-level, I welcome more competition for ideas/platforms/parties in the American political system. My naive fantasy

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