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> Ergo, these algorithms often purposefully amplify toxic content. "Purposefully" means that the algorithms were developed with the purpose to amplify toxic content. I seriously doubt this is the case. Amplifying toxic conten
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What metric do you then propose to optimize for to stop promoting "toxic" content?
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> These algorithms purposefully amplify some of the most toxic content out there No, these algorithms (often) purposefully amplify content that increases the engagement rate or "average time on page" metric. It's just
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> A simple law could require for-profit publishers of fake news to ensure a similar audience (retargeting or newly paid) reads the correction. Readers of fake news get the "correction" shown , but don't necessarily read
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> It seems to me that since the rise of social media, politicians are voting in a way that's less representative of their constituents, not more. A consideration: Could it also be that the politicians are voting quite like before, i
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In my observation, the graduates who go to finance and big business are a different breed of people than those who would love to stay in science. I don't think the typical person who deeply loves science becomes happy in finance of big
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This is of course not a "fix" for science (I don't believe such a universal fix actually exists), but a method to highly increase the effectiveness of the scientific process: Let the scientists simply do science or teaching (
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> Namely, paper references always reach back in time. Papers don't reference papers that were written after they were written. Actually, the opposite happens quite regularly: the author X got a pre-print of a paper by author Y. Fro
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> Damn, now I'm nostalgic for the older days of hacker news where RMS was quoted every other post. The community is forgetting it's roots. Keep in mind that now many of the people who post on HN earn a lot of money by working a
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> That rapidly converges on "you can't buy a computer and use it", because economic interests favor trusted computing devices. I would rather argue that it converges to "you become more and more morally obliged to lea
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> I'm not sure if I understand your argument. As long as you can put your own things on your TPM and use it for your own good it's not too bad right? As long as software that uses the TPM cannot detect whether you tampered with
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> Maybe I am too simplistic, but I do not see the evil in the TPM here, but only in the 3rd party policy. The evil is that the "Trusted" in "Trusted Computing" and "Trusted Platform Module (TPM)" means that
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Shouldn't this be considered as strong evidence that copyright is just censorship?
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> the underworld being the root of trust Pun intended?
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To this talk, there exists a less well-known sequel: DEF CON 23 - Cory Doctorow - Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6itfUUsoQ
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> Is princess Mononoke the best movie from Studio Ghibli? As far as I am aware, most anime nerds say that Grave of the Fireflies is the best movie from Studio Ghibli (for this movie, Hayao Miyazaki was only producer and not director). Bu
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> No one wanted to invest in reading a 45 minute article Honestly, I was/am quite the opposite kind of person: I mostly went to Medium for this kind of long reads. When the articles typically became shorter, I became much less inter
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> The 'best engineers' empathize with the perspective of 'management,' I deeply disagree with this argument of "empathizing": it is very often the case that if I tend to disagree with another side and nevert
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> This guy is upset that the free service he uses Twitter is not free. It's just that the payment is not money, but personal data, generating content that Twitter can use, and being a viewer of ads.
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"Democratic vote" does not only mean "put ballot paper into ballot box". You can also vote with your feet.
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> These societal rules and norms, are, and should be governed by a democratic process. By deleting your account at services that show such a licentious behaviour, you can cast your democratic vote against such services. Not doing this or
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> In USA and Western Europe Macs became the de facto general purpose computers. For Western Europe: surely not in Germany.
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Consider it as a lesson not to make yourself too dependent on the whims of big tech companies. Ideally, learn to set up your own infrastructure.
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> the likes of foucault and nietzsche would be better source material than random internet opinion for this sort of thing This is Hacker News. The Jargon File is a quite famous document of the hacker scene: https://en.wikipedi
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> autism, like many "disorders", is keenly overdiagnosed, to create a sociopolitically-mediated norm from which deviance (like "high-functioning" autism) can be classified and, where desired, ostrasized, for the sake
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These features were already added in version 3.39.0.
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> How many pieces of civil infrastructure, bridges, roads, walkways, gutters, buildings, etc do you use but not understand? The question rather was: > How can someone spend five hours a day online without caring how it works? Thus: Ho
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> For those working in tech/software development teams - do you also find that there's a lot of tension between developers and designers? Quite the opposite: I typically tend to get along quite well with designers. Perhaps one
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> I'm surprised there aren't quantum blockchains already. There are: > https://www.quantumblockchains.io/ > https://quantumblockchaintechnologies.co.uk/ :-)
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> Nyt has paywall. Use archive.is: > https://archive.ph/35ftR

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