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by dalbasal 4y ago
Middle quintile?
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Ultimately, the attention received by thieves and vandals is the major factor for 2 wheel vehicles. For whatever reason, a 500cc will get messed with a lot less than a 50. I have a powerful "electric bike." It does the 50cc job we
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I agree entirely. The new born baby approach is a bane of our time more broadly. A stupid descendant of an important, enlightenment idea. I think if you look at real-world examples with an actual history like reddit... you find that reality
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Write it now. This is the time. Look... IMO, these tend to go the wrong way from the first sentence. Almost any polemic on this topic starts by assuming or implying that Freedom of Speech means X or that censorship means Y. The reality is t
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I didn't say "zero censorship." I don't even know what that means for an encyclopedia. Wikipedia have a model for user generated content. It's much more resilient, open, unbiased and successful than social media.
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>> Twitter (let’s face it we’re talking about Twitter) is not the world Twitter is popular with journalists, politicians and such. Hence all the attention. For most people, facebook and youtube are the important part. IMO, youtube is
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So this is kind of what I mean by "no a priori definition." Social media is new. The "right" to broadcast was almost theoretical before the internet. It wasn't what free speech was about. IMO, we don't have fre
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Precisely. ...and just like in a government censorship context, ambiguity and fear do a lot of the work. Rules are not clearly defined or consistently enforced. You don't necessarily even know that you are being disciplined. It's
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The switch would have to write tweets and make videos that people would have made if not for the threat/cost of being moderated.
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Syd Barrett here. The point of debate here is how to divide moderation from censorship. I'd argue that size and power matter most. How you moderate is a technicality. It makes the difference between good and bad moderation, but it does
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I agree with the spirit, but I think we have to consider the structure. >> Give me the tools that the moderators have Whatever tools a site like twitter or youtube gives you, (A) most people will never use them and (B) they still cont
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The proposed solution also doesn't do much for free speech. It's still censorship, IMO, for any definition of censorship that matters. Content A is filtered-by-default, demonetized or otherwise discouraged and distribution-suppres
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I feel this piece, like a lot of moderation/censorship rhetoric, starts from a disingenuous place. Free speech, moderation, editing, censorship, propaganda, and such do not have clear definitions. The terms have a history. Social media
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Rental scooters here (Tel Aviv) often come with helmets. They click into the front.
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OK... this is the kind of thing I am talking about. " It's resource-efficient because it relies on volunteer labour. " That's one of the reasons, and it's not a bad reason at all. In fact, I would say that wikipedia
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I don't disagree with anything you said. I also think that wikipedia should adopt a much less cringey fundraising style. However... I feel like wikipedia tends to attract a highly disproportionate amount of criticism, especially about
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"Right" is a rhetorical device. It doesn't usually mean something specific and clearly defined a priori. In context though, they do often gain specific and clearly defensible definitions. Take, "Free Speech." It&#x2
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High-indignation, low information commentary is... I feel, almost inevitable here. Elon himself has not really , IMO, provided any information about his plans. His points about making Twitter free, bot problems and such are themselves low-
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Evaluating the strength of evidence is one thing. Another is correctly what the evidence supports, regardless of strength. Another common family of mistakes are those that overgeneralize or overapply. Taking evidence to.mean something deepe
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Many "green laws" like plastic bags are signaling>effect. This is true. Sometimes this is even recognised. Awareness-raising and such. That said, externalities don't generally get solved without laws. I totally agreed that
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Idk... We have a tendency to use indicators irresponsibly. Economic productivity measures can be useful for understanding specific circumstances, like the output of an industrial sector. The broader and more abstract we extend them, the mor
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This is pretty meandering, and some parts are quite good. However... I feel like this relies on a narrow perspective of the past. Did people's belief systems not work this way in the past? I mean, the social internet is new, and that c
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Different sides of a polyface coin. For example, I'm from Israel. Two hundred hundred moons ago, I was involved in a civil peace initiative. The point was for citizens to discuss this unofficial peace document so that it could form the
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Idk.. First, you can't get the old vehicle new for cheap. That option is no longer available. You do get an objectively better one, but value is fundamentally subjective. Marginal economics bridges this gap with consumer choice, but if
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I'm kind of bummed that FOSS licencing isn't one of the teeth here. The anticompetitive aspects here are based in overly restrictive distributor contracts. The fact that android and chrome are so full of FOSS, yet Google does what
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Woah! Woah! Easy now. We don't need lumpers and splitters shedding blood here. d
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Yes. I didn't get it. Hated it. Then got it. Completed it. Now I love it. Sign of a good puzzle... though the frustration/challenge balance is on a knife's edge with this game. Overall, yeah. It has the feel of a clever, love
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So, this in no way justifies what Meetup.com is (allegedly) doing. It sounds like a very bad business decision, besides being morally questionable. However... stuff like this is quite normal a few steps up the big-fish, little-fish food web
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Idk how if studying philosophy helps. Most philosophers were/are themselves committed to one school or theory, with gaps galore. In any case, I think empirical science's defeat of rationalism ( eg Galileo Vs Church) has all sorry
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To that side note... Perhaps your surprising feeling relates to the fact that storytelling is a very old art, and we have been practising it intensely for a long time. In the greater scheme, maybe 3400 years isn't as long for storytell

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