conicalscientist @ conicalscientist @lemmy.world

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This is exactly how voat died. There may have been an ounce of legitimacy early on. It veered into blatant far right accounts posting every top post. It's obvious this kind of thing happens on lemmy too. Especially on certain instances. For now at least the federation model appears to be doing its thing.

The podcast called Sold a Story talks about how the school systems adopted a curriculum that doesn't teach kids how to read. They are more like mimicking literacy. It gives appearances they they are reading but they aren't comprehending.

Thiel funded reddit. He's had his hands in it since 2014.

This whole era of AI has certainly pushed the brink to existential crisis territory. I think some are even frightened to entertain the prospect that we may not be all that much better than meat machines who on a basic level do pattern matching drawing from the sum total of individual life experience (aka the dataset).

Higher reasoning is taught to humans. We have the capability. That's why we spend the first quarter of our lives in education. Sometimes not all of us are able.

I'm sure it would certainly make waves if researchers did studies based on whether dumber humans are any different than AI.

So is the red line crossed yet or is the goal post once again some indeterminate point in the future.

History won't tell the beginning of the Trump regime at that indeterminate point. It began when he rode down that piss yellow escalator.

I believed they were doing such things against budding competitors long before the LLM era. My test is simple. Replace it with China. Would the replies be the opposite of what you've recieved so far? The answer is yes. Absolutely people would be frothing at the mouth about China being bad actors.

Western tech bros are just as paranoid, they copy off others, they steal ideas. When we do it it's called "innovation".

Ostensibly the whole world has been online for enough time now. Yet everyone continues to demonstrate a remarkable lack of ability to grasp internet cultures.

It makes no sense. Like trying to explain technology to my elderly grandma. Except she knows she's very old and out of touch. What's everyone elses excuse. It's made even worse because everyone else thinks they are digitial culture savvy.

15 years ago millennials were cast in the generic framework of lazy younger generation. Now we have hindsight for them to be able to observe what actually happened. Millennials absolutely became a workaholic play hard generation.

Finally someone else who gets it. I kinda hoped lemmy would have a crowd that would at least be able to talk about this calmly but it looks like it's no less rabid about this topic than reddit.

They don't have to agree with conservatives. They just have to go so far as establishment Democrat. The "moderate" who keeps kicking the can down the road. 'Wait till midterms'. Wait till the next red line so we can move the red line to some time in the future.

The dream is not to become a billionaire. The dream is to become upper middle class. So you can sit in the middle and expound on virtues of those beneath you while reaping the benefits of those above.

Yes. Of course the big platforms actively seek to undermine competitors. There's billions of dollars at stake. Something that really convinced me was reading about how Facebook ran VPN services to spy on traffic so they could spot budding competitor platforms.

We know reddit used bots at the beginning to generate activity to make the site look popular. Something I'm not convinced they ever stopped doing. I believe reddit corporate still bots their own site for whatever purpose they require in the moment. I absolutely believe they troll their own site. Remember spez is the guy who live edits the production database.

The account hasn't been banned. From what I've seen in 10+ years redditing it's extremely difficult to for right wing accounts to get banned. They incite violence or spread hate. Very rarely do the accounts get banned.

First and foremost reddit takes a long time to respond to reports. And then they rarely ever apply punitive action. So what you've seen here is pretty standard.

Criminals looking out for criminals. The Trumps are a crime family.

There isn't a slippery slope. They are doing it. Do you need an executive order called "WE'RE DOING EUGENICS"...

I'm tired of the edging. The perpetual brink of disaster. It's here. There are no more red lines. We passed them a long time ago. This is authoritarian America. They are doing the things. Enough with the edging.

I don't know what you have in mind but the founders originally used bots to generate activity to make the site look popular. Which begs the question. What was really the root reddit cultures. Was it the bots following human activity to bolster it. Or were the humans merely following what the founders programmed the bots to post.

One things for sure, reddit has always been a platform of questionable integrity.

This is probably the most ethical you'll ever see it. There are definitely organizations committing far worse experiments.

Over the years I've noticed replies that are far too on the nose. Probing just the right pressure points as if they dropped exactly the right breadcrumbs for me to respond to. I've learned to disengage at that point. It's either they scrolled through my profile. Or as we now know it's a literal psy-op bot. Already in the first case it's not worth engaging with someone more invested than I am myself.

You're a professional victim.

Point taken. Looks like the guy is standing pat with his full blown alternate reality narraive. And he's still gotten more upvotes inspite of being so unabashedly in bad faith.

Ah well I wish mods would have nuked the whole comment chain.

A few years ago I got drive through that wasn't put together properly. They dumped all the stuff into the box. Could have gotten a proper restaurant dining experience for the same price.

McDonalds has gone so far out of touch with what they are as a business.

I say let it stand as a testament. Incels bring out the big guns when you get too close to reality. I've noticed this pattern over the years.

The propaganda is something to behold. This is the kind of thing young men are being bombarded with.

beat the shit out of people

It's not literal. You seriously don't know what social conditioning is???

gay bashing

I have no clue how you derived homophobia from this.

This is either a troll or poor reading comprehension.

edit: I just saw your other replies. You're being deliberately obtuse to derail the thread.