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by angelzen 5y ago
"Facebook has created a system of incentives that are inexorably leading to harmful outcomes" Exactly right. The solution baffles me. "Force Facebook to reveal and permit research so we understand the system and fix it"
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by angelzen 5y ago
> I think a lot of folks forget that Facebook wanted to come in and clean up some of the filth in social media. They felt that by attaching your _real_ name to your posts, instead of a handle as was the traditional practice, that you wou
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Communications on Facebook aren't worse than what was on the internet two decades ago. Let's not underestimate the degree to which 'likes' (social affirmation ersatz) are eliciting the worst in people.
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by angelzen 5y ago
'Deserve to be rich' is the wrong frame. What is a sensible procedure to decide who deserves to be rich and who doesn't? The say so of powerful politicians? 'Raised to the top via a combination of skill, luck and shrewdn
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by angelzen 5y ago
I agree with the sentiment, with a caveat. Social media. I don't have a FB account, so can't to compare directly, but Twitter is pretty bananas too. Traditional media sold us the yellow cake story without batting an eye. Amplifyin
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by angelzen 5y ago
I will never forget the exhausted desperation in the voice of a young woman talking to her parents in an undisclosed middle America location: 'there are no jobs'. The words are cliche, I know. Nonetheless I'd recommend taking
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by angelzen 5y ago
I remember a church being set on fire across the street from the White House. I guess arson, especially if directed at Christian churches, is just the way we exercise our 1st Amendment rights in this country. https://www.nbcwashi
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not the OP, but I think Facebook is a near monopoly in 'posting vapid selfies for likes' category via Instagram.
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by angelzen 5y ago
> We don't even know what Facebook is. A media company? A news organization? A shop? A dating site? Facebook is an entity that controls the information flow reaching its users and shapes it in the interest of the highest bidder.
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by angelzen 5y ago
School system and foster care system. Unfortunately this is very charged territory. Too many people are trying to push some angle. Finding credible data is difficult. One thing is clear: the US Catholic Church has made significant reforms t
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by angelzen 5y ago
Consider that your knowledge can be simply media bias.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Like you said, this is not a uniquely Christian Church problem. Likely we are looking this from the wrong angle: it's not the institution that is the primary issue, it's the population of would be abusers that are seeking roles th
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by angelzen 5y ago
We live in an information oversupply era. Refuting information is just as important as creating information was in older eras. Unfortunately funding comes primarily from political operations. The incentives are aligned to refute one side of
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by angelzen 5y ago
Would be nice though to have an example that does demonstrate the power of Cypher.
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by angelzen 5y ago
'Nodes' are represented by the ID column [1] (aka single-column PK) in the respective table. 'Hyperedges' are tables that tie together 2 (or more) IDs, for example the classic ParentChild table. Table attributes can be s
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by angelzen 5y ago
What a wretched world we live in. Developing products we'll never use ourselves. Teaching our children how to best above the poisoned fruits of our labor. Where is the exit?
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by angelzen 5y ago
US tech has plenty of capabilities to deter even modern armies. US simply lacks the will to inflict the level of casualties necessary for deterrence. In a weird twist, there are worrying signs that US is in the process of turning its deterr
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by angelzen 5y ago
> No single hypothesis on why. No utility. Blue objects in the world: the sky, the sea, a handful of flowers, some very rare stones. Not edible, not usable in any other form. The phenomenon can be directly observed in some languages wher
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by angelzen 5y ago
Your bank account was suspended because the algorithm deemed one of your youtube comments as misinformation. Edit: Touching a nerve, eh?
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by angelzen 5y ago
I don't know the tech answer. Socially speaking, I feel rather strongly that it should be elementary courtesy to shut off the panopticon if I visit your spyware-infested house. I didn't consent to Amazon building a profile of me,
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by angelzen 5y ago
Who forced my neighbor to buy a Ring? Should we have any confidence that my neighbor's Amazon state of the art far field microphones don't also pick up the vibrations from my house / condo? There is nothing I can do about
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by angelzen 5y ago
Disaster reporting focuses on absolute numbers because populations have exploded during XX century. Disasters have a whole lot more people in their path, thus a solid chance to break morbid records that sell newspapers. "Record deaths
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by angelzen 5y ago
For a really large country like USA, state-level data is more accurate than country-level data when it comes to evaluating length of epidemic spikes. It is conceivable to have rolling spikes that affect different states at different times,
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by angelzen 5y ago
... we are not ... but there are nightmare scenarios ... some human induced ... pray they never come true ... This is media fear porn. Take a minuscule number. Can't fear monger the number itself. But look, it's 50% larger than it
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive > The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote of a (possibly ahistorical) occurrence in India during British rule.[2][3][4] The B
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by angelzen 5y ago
How to build a healthy forest: Step1: Fence off 100000 acres in a proper climate zone. Step2: Wait 1000 years.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Age is the other major risk factor. The 1900 age pyramid is completely different than 2000 age pyramid. Within the biologically active sector of the population (persons with biological children in their future, aka children and young adults
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'd rather that joke were not made. There is a difference though between a discreet 'not a great moment' and public 'absolutely inacceptable [and we should hound the poor sap out of all gainful employment opportunities f
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perhaps we can pair serial 'it was just a joke' with serial 'that's offensive' people in an infinite outrage loop and then go on with our lives?
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by angelzen 5y ago
What you said is exactly right in a world of ephemeral speech, but difficult to employ in a world of permanent records. Anybody can simply link to the joke and stir outrage, over and over, out of the context of the larger learning process.

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