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by retsibsi 6y ago
Yep. I think this is the sort of thing that could potentially backfire on them, though. Engagement through addiction sadly seems to be a bottomless goldmine, but engagement through deception can leave people dissatisfied and ripe for poac
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by retsibsi 6y ago
I would for anything truly extreme (like some horrible shock footage in the middle of a supposedly innocent video). But I don't know if all of these videos actually violate any rules; often they are of the kind <title: THING YOU&#x2
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Oh if you're going back that far, then yes, it definitely still exists, though I don't doubt it used to be a lot worse. (I phrased my first response carefully in case there had been changes in, say, the past few months that I hadn
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by retsibsi 6y ago
It's probably hard for any of us to know the actual ratios, because only a filtered version of what's out there penetrates our bubbles. I think with hot-button topics like this there's usually a race-to-the-bottom spiral of r
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> if I am looking for "interview of HenryBemis" and there are 10 likes and 1000 dislikes, it means that this is probably NOT the video, but someone commenting on the video This is the sort of thing I had in mind. Some of it is
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Fair point, but I think downvotes have been useful to me relatively recently. Fake videos may not show up in recommendation feeds, but they still appear in search results don't they? (And if you're searching for something relative
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by retsibsi 6y ago
This seems rather user-hostile. The downvote count is useful for identifying videos that aren't what they claim to be. And how about DIY videos that give terrible advice? A big downvote ratio will get most people's attention in a
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Be kind to the dumber animals too. They can all suffer. (Think of some of the most intense suffering we're capable of; it doesn't all depend on higher cognition, some of it is very base and physical.)
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by retsibsi 6y ago
I'm not advocating the race-based approach, just pushing back against the idea that the advice was complete nonsense or hopelessly ambiguous. I can see why someone would say it with good intentions and a basically sensible message in m
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by retsibsi 6y ago
You must be filtering by speaker at some level and in some contexts, though, right? I assume you have opinions on e.g. scientific topics that you don't understand in depth. The only way I know to form those opinions is by doing my best
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by retsibsi 6y ago
I'm not a fan of racialising everything either, but I don't think the intended meaning of that advice is really so obscure. It is something like 'white guys have been socialised to put themselves forward and take credit for t
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by retsibsi 6y ago
It absolutely can (and often does) lead to a cycle of reinforcing one's own biases. But I'm not convinced it would be either possible or desirable to completely avoid it. You simply can't thoroughly evaluate every claim you h
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> I don't actually care what your underlying beliefs are as long as the point you are making is a coherent / valid one I half agree, but for me it depends on the situation. If the point is purely logical or empirical, and a ful
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by retsibsi 6y ago
It's genuinely difficult to find the right balance, though. (Even as an individual, let alone as a society.) I don't think there's a clean solution; the only easily-applied heuristics are the stupid extreme ones, either assum
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> Yeah, but isn't that the same thing, said in a different way? Sort of, and it's definitely part of the same dynamic. The differences, or at least the points I wanted to emphasise, are: - I thought you were focusing on people&
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> Oh. My. God. Just ask the person if they want your advice. I'm admittedly a bit socially inept, but isn't it obviously not this simple? Someone saying they want honest feedback is no guarantee that they will take it well.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
That definitely happens, but sometimes the motivation is a bit more nuanced than just crawling to the mob. With everything so tribalised, and most people unwilling to stick their neck out and call their ingroup on its bullshit, we end up in
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> I also realize that probably depends largely on where you live. Yeah, I think this can largely be explained by the usual tendency to focus on our own backyards. Google says 'nearly 13,000 people with AIDS in the United States die
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> The value of bitcoin is zero if you are bargaining with me. I'll trade a chicken for bitcoin when the state allows me to pay my taxes in bitcoin. Until then enjoy your fairy money. Not sure how literally you mean this, but I don&#
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by retsibsi 6y ago
This reminds me of Wikipedia. The hardcore contributors/maintainers cop a whole lot of criticism, and I'm sure some of it is justified (though some is clearly just nerd-shaming), but people rarely acknowledge how amazing it is tha
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by retsibsi 6y ago
This is excellent, thanks for sharing it. One neat feature it took me a moment to notice: you can step through the animations manually, if you hit the pause button and then either drag the slider or click the arrow buttons.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
I don't think the probability changes, does it? But the block will be less valuable if there are fewer transaction fees to claim.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
It's not just the goals, it's the reasoning. There are highly upvoted advice posts that are transparently illogical and/or based on factual errors.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Default font sizes/layouts often don't suit me, so I've become very used to zooming (out, usually). LW is about right for me at 90%, while GW is a bit big at 80% but rather crowded at 70%. I can't pinpoint what I like ab
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by retsibsi 6y ago
If the people further up the chain have similar incentives (higher scores = we've all done a great job), and most students are either benefiting from the cheating or being harmed by it in only a fairly minor indirect way, it's pla
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Link to this article on the main Less Wrong site: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Yv9aj9bWD5H7aaDdy/how-my-sch... (Greater Wrong is probably great for powerusers, but I find the default view much uglier than LW.)
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> The one exception was vegetarianism: Ethicists were both more likely to say that it was immoral to eat meat, and more likely to be vegetarians themselves. Being less complicit in something that: - causes immense, horrific suffering; -
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> It's simply resulted in everyone adapting to 5 = slightly above average, 4.9 = average, 4.8 = run away screaming. Just out of curiosity from someone who doesn't use Uber, is this an exaggeration or meant pretty much literally
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by retsibsi 6y ago
I've always assumed they're basically legalised bribery, but I'd be interested to hear the best non-cynical explanation. Off the top of my head, I guess it could be a way of buying status-by-association, showing prospective c
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by retsibsi 6y ago
This disagreement happens often, and I think that's partly because there are two meanings of 'expect': to regard something as likely, or to regard it as the rightful or obligatory standard of behaviour. If you expect (in the

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