FlameRobot

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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> You’re too focused on labels. Humans don’t work that neatly. No I am using the terms correctly. You (from later on in your reply) aren't. > Political labels can work if you and the other person are educated on politics (95%+ of
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> We all get showed the alt right rage bait on youtube. t's full of "shapiro destroys libtards", "peterson annihilates the woke left", and "Rogan talks to <alt right conspiracy theorist> and wakes up t
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
There is a huge amount of UK infra now that is dependant on US companies either directly or indirectly (AWS, Microsoft/Azure). Code, data and infra is locked into US platforms. When US-EAST-1 when down last week, it halted our whole op
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
I don't think that would happen. Most of the large tech platforms will essentially just comply or come to a deal e.g. The IPA Demand for the UK gov to have a global backdoor iCloud was only rescinded when some deal was made between the
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
They do not. The alt-right hate Jews or people who support Israel. Ben Shapiro is a Jew, Jordan Peterson supports Israel and used to work for Daily Wire that had a Jewish host. No white nationalist would ever support that. You are either ly
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
That happens on car repair vids as well. I like this channel for example: https://www.youtube.com/c/WatchWesWork He fixes up a lot of different type of vehicles and actually explains in detail what he is doing. A lot o
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
The alt-right does not like them. You don't know what you are talking about.
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> You know what your lived experience was, that doesn't make you an expert on how addiction works on a physiological level. I actually edited out that from my reply because I knew that this would be used this way. Also "lived e
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
You know what is the funniest thing. I used to drink all these different Ales and artisan beers. After I quit drinking alcohol. I used to have a 4 pack of these 0% Ales/Larger that was supposed to taste similar. The packaging differs f
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> No, this is well-established scientific understanding of how our body and brain work. Our bodies/brains have extremely strong control over our minds. Yes you are. Ultimately you have to want to quit . That is a decision made by m
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
No. You just click "Not Interested" a few times and it they go away.
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> Recommendations are mostly tailored to your history, except with a couple hardcoded slots populated with some general-purpose "engaging" trash from your locale/geographical location, pretty much always political content.
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> I've found the opposite to be true. If I engage with a video in any way shape or form, even to say I don't want it, they consider that engagement I don't think that is the case. If I click Not Interested. Similar video d
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> I also get Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and other alt-right pipeline dorks in my recommendations solely because of my gender and age. I never engage with political content on YouTube and I’ve cleared my watch history multi
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> I am not denying you anything. You are. No ifs, not buts. > If you choose to believe in mind-body dualism you're free to do so, but this belief that you have agency which is completely independent of your physiology goes agains
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> Of course, but that doesn't mean that you had a real choice. Yes I did. I actually find it very insulting that you would deny me my own agency. I cured my addiction by simply not buying alcohol and abstaining. That was a choice I
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
They actually do show a several notices that says "Fancy something different, click here". They already have a mechanism in place that does something similar to what you describe. What YouTube recommends to you is more of what yo
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
YouTube recommendations are tailored to what you watch. I end up being recommended car repair videos, security/hacking/surveillance videos, repairing old vintage computers and some like comedy and music stuff I like. The stuff tha
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> This is an incredibly ignorant take on addiction. It's never a choice - by definition. It isn't that clear cut either way IME. I had a big drinking problem. I was the one that choose to start drinking. I was the one chose to
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
Yes it is an over the top comparison. I am a recovered / former addict (alcohol). I would never compare the two. I was spending too much time on Twitter a few years ago. I deleted my account. The problem was solved. It took me an entir
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
It is similar enough. People would just find the first thing in a disagreement that had headline that corroborated their opinion, this was often Wikipedia or the Summary on google. People did this with code as well. DDG used to show you the
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by FlameRobot 11mo ago
> I once had a glimpse behind the scenes of the online sports gambling industry (only for a few months—turns out that was my limit of how utterly disgusting an industry I could participate in and still, literally, sleep at night!) and it