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by kcplate 2y ago
> You’re assuming that the community oversight is automatically effective. This is the assumption people are making on this thread but no one has demonstrated how or if they are effective. I am not necessarily against civilian oversigh
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by kcplate 2y ago
Efforts to save lives within the vehicle even at a minor increased cost of lives outside the vehicle still nets many more lives saved. The problem isn’t that the vehicles are getting more dangerous to pedestrians, it’s the poor safety engin
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by kcplate 2y ago
Today I learned that if I raised my kids today like I did in the early ‘90s, I’d probably be on death row. In the summer my son same age as the kid in the news story would leave the house after breakfast and some days we wouldn’t see him
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by kcplate 2y ago
Exactly where did I advocate breaking the law in this thread?
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I acknowledge there would be conflicting forces and its a complex machine, but knowing myself and how important liberty has been to me for my entire adult (and even before as a teenager) life, I am confident that I would not interfere and w
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by kcplate 2y ago
The amount of apologetic comments for a potentially dangerous malfunction of tech on this thread is amazing.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> you should definitely mod! I am way too old, opinionated, and my ability to “suffer fools gladly is long in my past” But, I do appreciate your point that it’s good to see the sausage being made. Then again, I am a person who knows exa
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I believe you are defending a principle. If you choose not to moderate/ censor in those examples I would respect you for holding to your principle. I am of the opinion that net positive benefit of free expression outweighs negativ
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by kcplate 2y ago
I stopped doing the multi-monitor thing in favor of a single gently curved ultrawide. Coupled it with some window positioning shortcuts/gestures and it’s a dream for me
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by kcplate 2y ago
I’ve been saying over the last year to our marketing team that we should put some effort into better understanding how AI reads and understands our website copy and email copy so we can optimize there.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> a corporation bending the knee to an incoming administration Funny how you aren’t critical of when Meta bent their knee to the existing administration by participating in the censorship requests. I guess that was ok…because you support
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I don't recall expressing any of those sentiments you've attributed to me Perhaps I misunderstood your intentions then. If you believe that antivax debate was in the mainstream in the US and there wasn’t an active attempt to
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by kcplate 2y ago
When you feel the need to censor or suppress information all you are doing is admitting that your argument is just not as persuasive as the opposition and requires handicapping. People see that as the same thing as your argument being fals
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by kcplate 2y ago
So you are arguing for exactly what? You don’t want freedom of speech? You don’t want body autonomy? You want authoritarian control of the populace? Not sure where you live, but if those are the things that are important to your leader
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by kcplate 2y ago
No I am saying that when you censor/suppress debate in the public square you drive people underground where they land in echo chambers and develop extreme views because they don’t have public debate. You don’t need to ban people from e
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by kcplate 2y ago
> The math says it can't work. The way people are debating about this is under an assumption that it can. Yet here we are…the math seemed to work overall just fine minimizing the anti-vax movement until someone started externally fu
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Essentially what it showed was that if you pull people out of a particular echo chamber, then that had a sustained effect on how they behaved. So…silos and echo chambers are bad . Seems to me that was part of my original point. I am
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by kcplate 2y ago
You can reject my experience all you want but the reality is that between 2020 and 2023ish the world’s top social media platforms became less open about specific kinds of information and actively tried to censor and suppress any contrary i
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by kcplate 2y ago
> The difference between antivax sentiment now and circa 2005 The antivax movement literally grew exponentially when vaccine information started to be actively censored on the largest social media platforms and you think that is because
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yes I am aware of what a fact checker is supposed to do and am aware of what they really do . What they really do is spin information.
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by kcplate 2y ago
So your example is two places that were intentionally moderated to be hateful and also suppressed the non-hateful speech in those subreddits? So removing a censored platform eliminated the problem? Amazing how that works!
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by kcplate 2y ago
Exposure to many viewpoints, including wrong ones, provides a counterbalancing effect. When you actively try and suppress information you create a “forbidden knowledge” effect where people seek out silos where extreme and wrongheaded infor
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by kcplate 2y ago
Huh? There are very few things that are “salesperson sold” today that are needed. People just go buy what they need. Pretty much if there is a salesperson involved today it’s an item that is not needed/critical to your life. That’s
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by kcplate 2y ago
> without respecting their profession I’d venture to guess that almost everyone reading this thread owes their job to talented salespeople and more importantly the sales profession as a whole. I respect them and their profession becaus
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by kcplate 2y ago
> When the adherence to mask usage guidelines is taken into account Which pretty much in my observation no one back then was wearing masks correctly, was wearing the correct masks that actually had some effect (when worn correctly), or w
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by kcplate 2y ago
Madoff!
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by kcplate 2y ago
Unions don’t really protect against layoffs. All they can really do is whine about it.
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What do you think is missing? In the US we have whole government agencies (themselves unionized) dedicated to protecting worker rights.
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by kcplate 2y ago
What did unions really do for people in their heyday? They worked to improve working conditions, pay, and benefits. Literally nothing there really applies to tech nowadays…especially in FAANG (although most orgs too) and in the US. What
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by kcplate 2y ago
Well, it’s an accurate statement, at least how it’s been historically done in the US.

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