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Ask HN: Why do we need moderators at all?
14 points by fnovd 3y ago|50 comments
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by fnovd 3y ago
Federation works for Twitter, it doesn't work for Reddit. If my Mastodon instance federates with yours, I can see your posts, you can see mine, we're fully merged. If my lemmy instance federates with yours, we can browse each othe
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by fnovd 3y ago
If there are no successful, extant examples, then I don't think it's a good basis for anything. As I said, it's a Utopian ideal. That's fine, but it's not practical (and it's not trying to be). I think there ar
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by fnovd 3y ago
They never will and popular tools will never expect them to. Some people will, but never most.
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by fnovd 3y ago
If the federated system can't handle the trolls and bad actors that Reddit is currently equipped to deal with then the whole idea is dead in the water.
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by fnovd 3y ago
If the philosophy is the point, it's a dead platform. Utopian ideals are fine, if that's your thing. Shaming people who don't share them is just rude. I don't see how you can compare the platform to the democratic proces
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by fnovd 3y ago
Maybe if reddit developed some expertise in using all of the user data they have to tag, categorize, annotate every comment, they would have something of value to provide. Their recent actions only angered users and won't stop future L
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by fnovd 3y ago
Here's a thought experiment: what are the qualities of a parrot that would make its consciousness different than that of a stochastic parrot? For that matter, what are the qualities that separate a parrot's consciousness from a hu
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by fnovd 3y ago
>Yet those of us who never got that genetic golden ticket should take heart: The halo effect appears to go both ways. A number of studies show that goodness often enhances our looks. A paper in PLOS One in February, for example, reports
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by fnovd 3y ago
F-35s aren't particularly useful for collecting taxes, for maintaining a state. You can't use them to intimidate an individual, it's a huge waste of resources for the owner of the F-35. What's more dangerous than an F-35
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by fnovd 3y ago
No, it doesn't, because you don't know what the world would have looked like if there were no sanctions. If the impact of the sanctions delayed the war or forced Russia to go in with fewer supplies then the sanctions absolutely ha
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by fnovd 3y ago
OK, so your ministers are targeted, but everyday citizens are not. It's now trivial to work around sanctions and they don't matter at all. When your sanctions are symbolic, that's fine. When they're meant to actually hav
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by fnovd 3y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges. The counterparts to the government of Israel would be the PA and Hamas, not "Palestine". There is no objective measure of terrorism since that designation is a political one. You can look
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by fnovd 3y ago
Unlike the Russians facing issues due to the actions of their government? Do you think they are all guilty, all deserving of sanction and economic hardship? Of course not, but what's the alternative?
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by fnovd 3y ago
I don't understand the confusion on this topic. One side will pay the family of a suicide bomber that murders innocent civilians, the other won't. It's not complicated. War is ugly, but as a global society we do have some ide
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by fnovd 3y ago
You are not the worst picture of yourself ever taken. The picture does reflect a subset of you: at a particular place, at a particular time, taken from a particular angle. You are in the photo but the photo is not you. You can just take a b
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by fnovd 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...
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by fnovd 3y ago
This is only true when it is meaningless. Let's say my friend was born on January 2, 1900, and I was born on January 1, 1900. Who has the closer birthday to someone born on January 1, 2000? If you say it's me, well guess what, you
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by fnovd 3y ago
You're right that from an observer outside of the event horizon, a black hole hasn't happened yet (and never will). There's a fun thought experiment to be had here. We're all familiar with the concept of "going back
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by fnovd 3y ago
"Cannot be inferred from its training set" is a pretty difficult hurdle. Human beings can infer patterns that aren't there, and we typically call those hallucinations or even psychoses. On the other hand, some unconfirmed, no
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by fnovd 3y ago
So is the word "word" but that seems to have worked out OK so far. I can explain the meaning of "meaning" and that seems to work OK too. Being self-referential sounds a lot more like a feature than a bug. Given that the
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by fnovd 3y ago
LLMs are quickly going to be able to start explaining their own thought processes better than any human can explain their own. I wonder how many new words we will come up with to describe concepts (or "node-activating clusters of meani
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by fnovd 3y ago
>As an AI, I cannot make judgments or take sides in a debate. Not what I was expecting to hear from an AI judge!
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by fnovd 4y ago
It's a big deal as far as impact, sure, but I think it's also OK for us to abandon the need for complete control. Because, really, that's what this is about: we're worried that if we can't understand what's hap
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by fnovd 4y ago
"It doesn't know how it knows what it knows" is a very common criticism. "It's just predicting the next token but doesn't really 'understand' anything" is another. To me it's like saying, &q
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by fnovd 4y ago
>We don't really know how they work inside. I keep reading this, and my response is so what ? Do you have a ball sitting handy somewhere? Pick it up, throw it in the air, and then catch it. How did you do that? Can you regurgitate
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by fnovd 4y ago
What was the outcome of that incident? Fault was found with the Air Canada procedures, training, and manuals, while the Captain and First Officer went on to receive FAI Diplomas for Outstanding Airmanship. What did not happen was mass calls
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by fnovd 4y ago
We all rely on abstractions over layers we don't deal with directly, that's just a fact. You're not running a home-grown OS on custom-built hardware made from materials you mined out of the ground yourself. AI is just another
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by fnovd 4y ago
I'm sure people said the same thing about compilers. And then interpreters. Even today people complain about interpreted languages being too slow and not requiring people to understand "enough" of what's actually happeni
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by fnovd 4y ago
Redundancy is not a good use of focus for most people (except SREs and the like). The whole point of redundancy is to remove something from focus. I'm guessing you checked everything by hand for the sole purpose of not having to focu

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