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by nathias 4y ago
twitter, much like most of the internet is as good as you make it
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by nathias 4y ago
how do you think hackernews works?
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by nathias 4y ago
I mean the opposite of platform neutrality.
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by nathias 4y ago
for me that would be completely reasonable, but it isn't necessary, you can have many decentralized filters like automatically block people that are blocked by a % of people I follow and many similar mechanisms
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by nathias 4y ago
people with megaphones are the point, the problem is when there are mechanisms of moderation to manipulate them and make them into groups, if there is no such mecanisms and moderation is up to the user completely(unfollow/block) things
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by nathias 4y ago
I guess refreshing to see the masks drop as people turn to actively promoting corporate censorhip. I didn't think it there was this many, but I guess US politics with its cycles of polarization increased those numbers...
487.
by nathias 4y ago
maybe it would be even easier with an adjustable crescent wrench and pliers?
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by nathias 4y ago
yes, tools make some jobs easier or redundant, we've been doing this since the stone age
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by nathias 4y ago
philosophers caution when comparing an analogy to a thing
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by nathias 4y ago
moderation is when the user can select what he wishes to see, everything else is censorship, you could see it among ops on irc, reddit mods and platform algos
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by nathias 4y ago
It is definitely a technical problem to solve, they foster this kind of behavior because of algo design to optimize add sales. Even just not having add sales would make internet a better place. Also, you can avoid all of the problems of OP
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Learn all things zero knowledge(zkhack.dev)
4 points by nathias 4y ago|0 comments
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by nathias 4y ago
Very well presented. As for the argument I find it very convincing, it seems the best answer to the Fermi Paradox, much like the anthropic principle is to the obverse problem of the universe being very hospitable to life. None of the commen
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by nathias 4y ago
If I could choulse twitter would be a protocol, but to me the worst case is being owned by an anonymous bureaucracy working exclusively to optimize the platform for add revenue, that changes the 'rules' on the fashions of US local
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TDANNs reproduce the hallmarks of primate face processing network(biorxiv.org)
2 points by nathias 4y ago|0 comments
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by nathias 4y ago
this isn't true, there are many things I can't buy
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by nathias 4y ago
Neuromancer and Snow Crash
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by nathias 4y ago
I have, mostly they don't understand the tech and the concpts invloved but it doesn't matter because they are mostly concerned with what to do with tech. This type of FUD is not understanding the tech and the concepts involved whi
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by nathias 4y ago
how aggressively idiotic
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by nathias 4y ago
> While new functionality meaningfully improves user experience, especially when it comes to gaming. What do you mean? The most changes I see in Windows is just more spyware/adds added to basic features.
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by nathias 4y ago
This is not what an oxymoron is (that would be something like individualist community). There is no direct contradiction between individualism and our social aspect, we have always been social and we invented societies and institutions to m
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by nathias 4y ago
I often use thesaurus to translate complex words into simpler ones, it really does improve the overall writing especially if you are biased towards redundant complexity ...
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by nathias 4y ago
science does not determine urgency or priority of the problemes, this falls under consumption or politics
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by nathias 4y ago
If 'emergency' is the default way of working leave, there are no justification for that.
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by nathias 4y ago
This paradox only shows that the definition of knowledge used to produce it was wrong.
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by nathias 4y ago
neat, I can trace mine to Kant
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by nathias 4y ago
How about working from a common office with others that enjoy the company? I don't think forcing everyone else to hang out with you in the office is the way to go.
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by nathias 4y ago
cool, maybe they'll become a free speech platform
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by nathias 4y ago
These aren't really synonyms right? What are they? How are you getting the data? (I'm basing this on solitutde - alienation example).
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by nathias 4y ago
if this is true and the experiment can be explained away, this would not tell us anything about the world, but shift the question about ontological determinism back to metaphysics and outside of the reach of empirical knowledge

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