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by graeme 3y ago
Google should buy Reddit instead. Not that different from owning Youtube. And they'd ensure their search results remain full of good, text based content. Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. I
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by graeme 3y ago
You cited the post I replied to. I just replied with the post one level up from that one. OP says: social status is baked into us at a biochemical level another commentor: How do you explain why some people are insentive to status You cited
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Ask HN: Should Google Buy Reddit?
19 points by graeme 3y ago|13 comments
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by graeme 3y ago
Look one comment higher to the original comment that question was in reply to: >In the brain, serotonin seems to be deeply related to social status. This is Jordan Peterson's bit about lobsters - it's so ubiquitous that even lo
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by graeme 3y ago
It's about 70% of the largest subreddits: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
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by graeme 3y ago
It's about 70% of the top 1500 subreddits https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
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by graeme 3y ago
Yeah, I'm using the definition of status from improv, which I think actually captures how people act and feel. The discussion started based on what people feel biochemically and that's based on our daily actions and actual status,
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by graeme 3y ago
The original claim was that some people are "not sensitive to status" and have no biochemical changes from it. It is an incredibly broad claim. I would readily agree that many people are happy on their own, go against the majority
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by graeme 3y ago
The original claim is that some people are not "sensitive to status". It was an incredibly broad claim. I would agree with weaker claims such as "many people care less about status" or "many people ignore loss of st
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by graeme 3y ago
I meant more of a historical or public figure, where the claim could be assessed to some degree. Because "do not care" is internal and can only really be judged indirectly. Saying "I do not care" is one of those things w
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by graeme 3y ago
That it's a false belief. One of two things happens in those cases: 1. That person is in some way sad regardless of what they profess, or 2. They have their own subgroup where they rate status according to the status rankings of the su
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by graeme 3y ago
Yeah they really put themselves in a bind. A reddit admin just posted this: > We also want to reiterate that we respect your decisions to do what’s best for your community, and will do what we can to ensure you're safe while doing s
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by graeme 3y ago
This was posted by a Reddit admin today. Notable for this section, which asks any moderators who do not agree with a sub going private to report this to admins. The implication is that reddit would make those mods the head moderators. >
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Moderator Support and Resources(old.reddit.com)
1 points by graeme 3y ago|2 comments
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by graeme 3y ago
You're right. I took an overly naive view of how a complex system would respond to such an unusual event.
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by graeme 3y ago
I checked into the history: 1. A reddit request was made in 2018 when you were banned. This was manually approved by the admins: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/8m8cdm/reque... 2. The new
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by graeme 3y ago
Finding new moderators would be a incredible challenge. If someone wants to be a moderators badly, that is usually disqualifying. You get an immense amount of power with very little accountability except to the community. Put that in the
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by graeme 3y ago
> Assuming I'm exactly average, that means 50% of the population won't understand it either. Of that 50%, how many will actually care? Nothing will happen until it is too late. That’s the crux of the dilemma. It’s too hard. Not
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by graeme 3y ago
Over 90% of subreddits are currently dark. Impossible they had an excess of traffic
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by graeme 3y ago
I mod a sub with high advertiser value. Just checked without ad block. Reddit it showing completely untargeted irrelevant ads to the userbase. Maybe they're doing some sophisticated tracking of users by interest and showing relevant ad
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by graeme 3y ago
Have a look at the link being discussed. Subreddits all the way down to 5K+ subreddits are going dark. It's all across the board.
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by graeme 3y ago
Well the question of whether there was harm and whether it was or ought to have been known is precisely what a court would decide.
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by graeme 3y ago
A lawsuit is about harm . If it's a civil lawsuit, you can absolutely be sued for doing things which you know to be harmful to others, even if they aren't crimes. That's what a tort is. The purpose of such private lawsuits i
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by graeme 3y ago
Very odd for reddit to discount that it survives based on the free labour of power users, many of whom use Apollo and similar apps. This is one of those areas where a pure cost benefit analysis doesn't work. I mod a top 1% sub and one
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by graeme 3y ago
This is a study by a center which treats gliomas, a type of brain tumor. They noted a trend in rapid tumor progression following covid-19 infection and decided to study it. The patients at this center are given regular scans. Study sample:
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Analysis of tumor progression in patients with glioma after Covid-19 infection(ascopubs.org)
3 points by graeme 3y ago|1 comments
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by graeme 3y ago
I was suggesting his net worth will probably be whatever you get to keep after bankruptcy. Not more than $1 billion doesn’t mean anything close to it. And he’ll be in jail to boot.
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by graeme 3y ago
To be rich means you actually have fungible assets you can trade for things. I do not expect CZ could get anywhere near his reported $15 billion. I do not think he could get and keep more than one billion. SBF didn’t that’s for sure.
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I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me(twitter.com)
922 points by graeme 3y ago|222 comments
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by graeme 3y ago
Depends if they meant rates or rates by age. If you mean population rates, then rising life expectancy caused by a decrease in other causes of death would absolutely increased overall pop alzheimer's rates. If other causes of death wer

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