kopo

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by kopo 8y ago
Cure is simple. Get rid of the dumb counts (views,clicks,upvotes,likes etc etc) next to every thought/comment/image/video. These are highly arbitration/inaccurate signals of quality. They influence thought and behavior.
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by kopo 8y ago
Probably the same, but why do panderers need a broadcasting platform?
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by kopo 8y ago
Also how presidents get elected. The spokesppl/talkingheads/oped columnists/twitterati/news reader class all do the same thing - https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fairway
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by kopo 8y ago
Everybody is currently conditioned to think they have to stand up on a stage and give a TED talk/I Have a Dream speech -> drum up enough support and you are on your way right? Wrong. Because everyone else is playing the same game.
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by kopo 8y ago
Divide whatever your number is by 1.4 billion. Labeling and judging people is always tempting in the face of complexity, but it is also always a choice you make.
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by kopo 8y ago
And difficult newspapers! And difficult news! Our journalist class has somehow got into this ELI5 routine, where they feel obligated to turn every complex subject into something a fifth grader can debate about.
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by kopo 8y ago
People like to keep saying the elite will reach godhood thanks to the increasing pace of biological/technical progress (that they will reap the most). But the opposite might well happen. The more data that pours in the more obvious it
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by kopo 8y ago
You asked for suggestions that didn't involve outrage and I gave you some. These are suggestion that have been around for a long time and even Jack Dorsey from Twitter and Tim Cook from Apple have bought it up recently. Facebook'
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by kopo 8y ago
Don't show people their like counts or delay it. Provide noprocast settings like HN. That's all they have to do.
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by kopo 8y ago
Well this is Facebook. How much political content moves through their platform everyday? Your comment makes sense if it is McDonalds or Nike or Wallmart. Their CEO's aren't being asked everyday by every govt on the planet what the
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by kopo 8y ago
The consumption data doesn't seem to be clear. Maybe I am mistaken but I would think ISP's should easily be able to provide a trend line of what the consumption rates look like.
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by kopo 8y ago
Wagner and Dahl don't have as much influence on society as corporations do. So I don't really agree with that comparison. My issue is mindless ambition/win at all costs/do whatever it takes produces "competence&quot
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by kopo 8y ago
I am also sure the study will show Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg run orgs with highly competent managers. But it is not competence in my book.
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by kopo 8y ago
>> obligated to acknowledge opinion lol thats a nice way of putting it. It's an interesting point about why we are all so attracted to opinion. It doesn't require much mental energy or something I suppose. Plus in an info ov
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by kopo 8y ago
I have been reading Marshall Rosenberg's Non-Violent Communication and according to that book - seeing people happy or seeing peoples interesting thoughts or seeing their appearance etc etc can all lead to comparative/judgemental
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by kopo 8y ago
HN and Reddit arent that different from other social media sites. All of them in my mind are "All You Can Eat" info buffet tables. This is just the current approach we have of dealing with a new world overloaded by info. It will c
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by kopo 8y ago
Which is why ratings play a role. If Somalia decides they love their goats too much and are not handing them over, their ratings get trashed.
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by kopo 8y ago
Debt really translates to assets sitting somewhere. If Somalia defaults you might end up owning a couple goats but if US defaults maybe you get an Airfield.
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by kopo 8y ago
World class athletes are highly disciplined and motivated (there is a difference between those two words btw). Yet you won't find a single one without a coach. Why? That's your homework.
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by kopo 8y ago
>> in fact the opposite What are you telling them to do? I have a psychiatrist friend who consults at the medical center, in a college town. She is getting called in so much she wants to move to a different town.
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by kopo 8y ago
It's not simple to do. First you need a whole lot of data to train the system which doesn't really exist (unlike the case of speech to text or one language to another(text to text)). You would need to set up a big data collection
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by kopo 8y ago
Executive speak is designed for minimal fallout. But it has other deeper value in maintaining power structures and internal org stability. Any deviations and rumblings from within the hierarchy become very easy to identify if they don'
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by kopo 8y ago
That was one good read. Scanning the comments, surprised no one has brought up religion. Specifically why religions, all religions, need rituals. Not just narratives/imagery/a priest class etc. Rituals, to the scientist or non bel
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by kopo 8y ago
Who cares? They were busy snoring when it came to 9/11. Fake WMDs, never ending wars against goat herders, snowden, not to mention 13 Russians who apparently swung an election. If someone is busy triggering mail bombers and lunatic sho
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by kopo 8y ago
Yup. Dotcom era all over again where everyone and their grandmother need to be building a website.
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by kopo 8y ago
Very interesting. I have had this feeling watching political news/gamergate/comicgate/damore etc. Too much energy gets expended trying to convince/shame/punish the other side. None of it imho has produced outcomes o
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by kopo 8y ago
Social media and news media in their present form, increase the asshole in all of us. Why can't they do the opposite? It feels like there has to be a switch to flip it.
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by kopo 8y ago
I thought so too, until while programming a wifi webcam I needed to sniff wifi traffic from my phone. God that was scary. I remember doing packet capture work 10-12 years back and knowing more or less what my machine was doing on the networ
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by kopo 8y ago
My theory - too much information, out of sequence, without a good guide present to clear up misunderstandings. I teach part time. Lot of the anxiety and depression I see in kids seems to be thanks to this constant info overload on the net.
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by kopo 8y ago
It's more complicated than that. Matt Taibbi - "As it turns out, there is a utility in keeping us divided. As people, the more separate we are, the more politically impotent we become. This is the second stage of the mass media de

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