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by Fins 7y ago
...and then they wonder why elite college graduates happily go on to create scuzzy outfits like FB, Uber, etc. etc. Also, UChicago is pretty much the only university in the country actually deserving that title.
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by Fins 7y ago
Actually, I think that "social media" as a platonic ideal is more useless than evil. Now, the social media that we actually have -- FB, Twitter and alike -- that appears to be quite obviously evil as it promotes wrong incentives (
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by Fins 7y ago
Might depend on your definition of "intelligent" though. I've met quite a few, too, including friends and relatives. Sure, they better than average programmers, but general intelligence seems to be the same as in your genera
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by Fins 7y ago
You don't have to be male to be a techbro, in a way. I am also reasonably sure that FB (as well Google and others) are engaged in some pretty public efforts to improve the gender balance in tech. Or at least pay lip service to doing so
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by Fins 7y ago
I am pretty sure people somehow managed to share silly jokes with friends long before there were FB or Twitter, and will manage long after they are gone. Some of the best books or music in existence were written before there even were compu
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by Fins 7y ago
Or, even more alternatively, these aren't problems that could, or should be solved with/by technology, as much as Facebook's techbros do not want to believe it. And besides, this isn't about moderation. It's that it
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by Fins 7y ago
...and to hell with minor, uninteresting and not cutting-edge issues like impact on society.
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by Fins 7y ago
Is there any evidence of that? Google selects people based on entirely different criteria, and promotes them for moving a button in Gmail from an inconvenient location to an even less convenient one.
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by Fins 7y ago
Some people may not enjoy the "making the world an objectively worse place" part. Not everyone is moved only by a fat paycheck and working on interesting problems. Otherwise we might as well assume it is perfectly fine to work on
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by Fins 7y ago
Smart (in the usual understanding of smart), or good programmers (in the "can invert a binary tree on a whiteboard" sense)? These are two measures that are basically orthogonal.
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by Fins 7y ago
...by banning people they don't like...
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by Fins 7y ago
And what kind of strategies would those be? Never mind that I woud not trust anyone in SV to decide what is and is not "fake news". OK, not only in SV, but letting Facebook "curb faker news" and create an impression th
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by Fins 7y ago
Do you seriously believe the generic PR-speak of "to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us."?!
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by Fins 8y ago
Or maybe (because they might have some great programmers, but that's not necessarily the same as having smart people) they are "solving" something that isn't a technical problem in the first place with code?
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by Fins 8y ago
Better than nothing, I guess, although FB deciding who is a reliable verification entity isn't all that great either.
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by Fins 8y ago
And Facebook will decide what misinformation is?
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Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Government Regulation of Political Speech on Facebook(reason.com)
3 points by Fins 8y ago|2 comments
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by Fins 8y ago
The umber of trans people harassing somebody in the bathroom, or otherwise, is probably minuscule enough, and indeed there are laws that deal with that. But you seem to be intentionally overlooking GP's main point -- people (dare I say
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by Fins 8y ago
Not surprising at all.. A few times I tried to find something to watch on Netflix' streaming service (which we have for free from wife's T-Mobile, but I don't think they have a different selection for those) I could not find
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by Fins 8y ago
Blocking Russian scientists' access is pretty small example Elbakyan being reprehensible, regardless of whether Sci-Hub is or isn't a good thing. From all that's known about her, including her own chest-beating, she's a
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by Fins 8y ago
It is quite interesting in Russian, actually. She started writing programs for (literally) stealing people's money, and never saw any reason to stop. A true hero, indeed.
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by Fins 8y ago
While what she's doing might have some positive side effect to it, calling a Putin stooge who only does it to stick it to those evil Western capitalists and does not care an iota about, you know, science, a "hero" seems to be
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by Fins 8y ago
Actually, I am for Facebook having the right to ban anything and anyone from their platform. But that does not mean that doing so would necessarily be a good, or right, or moral thing to do.
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by Fins 8y ago
Even assuming that this premise were true, FB, Google, or any other tech company deciding who is a "literal Nazi" is a terrible idea. And of all the ways FB is making the world worse, "letting Nazis have a soapbox" is le
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by Fins 8y ago
If someone is threatening to commit violence, there are already perfectly effective legal ways of dealing with it. If anything, if you do deplatform them , noticing that speech becomes significantly harder, while they become more radicali
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by Fins 8y ago
This is a thread about Facebook, isn't it? And the parent,m or GP by now, very much alludes to it, or platforms in general. In the bakeshop case though, I do not think it has ever been alleged, that they ever refused to serve anyone ca
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by Fins 8y ago
That, actually, has nothing to do with that BS "paradox" and well predates it. Indeed, you can't do illegal things, and inflicting violence on others is generally illegal. What the "paradox" is used for is to silenc
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by Fins 8y ago
"Move fast and break things" doesn't quite work even in the SV bubble. Letting somebody as demonstrably immoral as Zuck do it in real life does not look like a good idea. Better not let him iterate the overreach in the first
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by Fins 8y ago
And of course as long as you agree with FB's determination of who is a Nazi and who isn't, it's all fine and peachy?
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by Fins 8y ago
This alleged "paradox" is just a convenient sledgehammer with which those in power can hit the powerless over the head to keep them quiet.

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