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by pms 11mo ago
Republicans and Elon Musk have become very skilled at exerting political influence in the US [1] and Europe [2] through social media in ways the public isn't really aware of. Is this really that far from the goal of Cambridge Analytica
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by pms 11mo ago
I don't think it's about the US in its entirety, nor ads, but Republicans and Elon Musk have become very skilled at exerting political influence in the US [1] and Europe [2] through social media in ways the public isn't reall
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by pms 11mo ago
I hope it's quite the opposite, since this can lead to innovation as we figure out how to depolarize social media platforms or how to develop more politically neutral online media.
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by pms 11mo ago
If applications and datasets are fragmented, then that's going to be a nightmare for all stakeholders, including: * researchers, because they will have to write data access applications, including a sufficient description of planned sa
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by pms 11mo ago
Except platforms don't allow it and have sued for it... https://www.google.com/search?q=x+sues+researchers
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by pms 1y ago
> But you of course didn't answer anything else I said, despite being wrong about the one thing you picked out of my response Exactly. This only exposes the lack of accountability and the harmful stereotypes that led Nazi Germany an
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by pms 1y ago
If an OS is used, then that's because people need it, not because they're fighting some imaginary fight in the jungle. It's their preferred OS. If the number of people using computers shrinks, because non-pro users move to mo
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by pms 1y ago
Why is this is a top comment? Market share is a relative measure. Even if there is a drop in the number of personal computers, still it's an achievement that the drop didn't affect Linux, while it affected other platforms. > Ba
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by pms 1y ago
It's 100% different. The institution I envision should represent all countries, or at least member countries, so that it has global democratic legitimacy. Simply put, interests of one country are not equivalent to interests of all coun
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by pms 1y ago
No. What I'm proposing is to make these processes purposefully and explicitly neutral, accountable, and just. This implies democratic and decentralised governance and decision-making. Clearly this isn't happening now.
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by pms 1y ago
In a reasonable world, the first step would be reforming NATO so that it becomes more neutral and focused on preventing wars rather than countering Russia. I'm saying this as a Pole, so definitely this isn't self-serving, since Po
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by pms 1y ago
You can ridicule this idea, but we're already having the US (partly through NATO) taking the role of a global sherif, except without aiming for neutrality, accountability, nor justice, so we end up living in a geopolitical world in whi
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by pms 1y ago
How do you imagine Iran giving up? If anything, it will radicalize. This would happen even if you did anything remotely similar to your kid (i.e., attacked the kid violently because of an accusation they did something wrong), not to mention
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by pms 1y ago
I don't think that's sustainable, because it leads to injustice, i.e., countries with nuclear weapons abusing their power, which in the end encourages all countries to get nuclear weapons to protect their own safety and interests.
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by pms 1y ago
I don't think that's sustainable, because it leads to injustice, i.e., countries with nuclear weapons abusing their position. As challenging as it sounds, we need to develop a strong impartial international institution whose the o
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by pms 1y ago
I don't know what you mean exactly, but it seems false. The human brain uses about 20 watts of power. A GPU uses more.
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by pms 2y ago
Thank you for being the voice of reason.
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by pms 2y ago
Thank you. This needs to be emphasized more.
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by pms 2y ago
You're expressing your opinions in this context, because Tesla didn't reveal the data that would let us tell whether its FSD system is objectively safer than an average human driver in the same driving conditions. You're
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by pms 2y ago
You continue falling to the straw man fallacy by bringing over and over the correlation is causation criticism, but the study doesn't make causal claims... I understand that an analysis like that is not conducive to thoughtful and insi
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by pms 2y ago
I admire that you've confirmed your biases. By truth I mean scientific discourse centered on evidence and freedom of speech. Unfortunately, Musk's and Trump's "freedom of speech" includes freedom to disinform the pu
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by pms 2y ago
Why this got flagged?
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by pms 2y ago
You're changing your arguments whenever I address the previous one. Have you noticed? > Hacker News biases heavily against Trump and Musk I imagine you're writing this only because you are biased for Musk (and/or Trump).
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by pms 2y ago
First, you don't understand the methodology of this study. Difference in differences takes into account external events by assuming that two different time series are affected by external events in the same way. In this case, the two t
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by pms 2y ago
This submission was about an algorithm of X, which clearly is on topic, particularly nowadays when millions of users migrate to Bluesky. The study doesn't offer any conclusion, but it analyses some data and offers a potential interpret
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by pms 2y ago
Someone flagged this HN post without specifying which HN guideline was broken, and the post is relevant and was going for the front page, so I'm bringing it to attention. I think the post is taken down because some people don't li
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by pms 2y ago
Betteridge's law sounds intriguing, but according to studies it doesn't hold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by pms 2y ago
At least two days in a row now, including today: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lb3qyu64bs2z
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by pms 2y ago
I thought the conversation was interesting. This post is clearly related to the interests of HN and it was going for the front page. Which specific guidelines did it break, if any?
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by pms 2y ago
This could be the result of the news feed change at X and Musk's endorsement of Trump...

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