mcBesse

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by mcBesse 2y ago
Hahaha IKR I keep hearing that advice and like has it EVER worked for ANYONE? If someone doesn't believe things can get better, then you can't make a depressed horse drink or however it goes. The thing that needs to be learned CAN
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by mcBesse 2y ago
Is the tradeoff with the potential positive influence worth it? Are there ways to mitigate the potential negatives?
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by mcBesse 2y ago
Shonen Knife's Capybara is the human version, in case anyone needs more capy in their life.
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by mcBesse 2y ago
Doesn't Ctrl+Shift+v already paste without formatting?
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by mcBesse 2y ago
Articles of Interest podcast did an episode on Paisley if anyone wants to know more
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by mcBesse 4y ago
> In a lot of places, it is socially unacceptable to wear the same thing for days in a row This piques my curiosity as it's definitely not the case where I live. Can I ask what sorts of places?
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by mcBesse 4y ago
I doubt psychology will ever change like alchemy into chemistry, but perhaps advancements in our understanding of the mind will take a different form?
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by mcBesse 4y ago
The article doesn't suggest that at all, as far as I can tell. None of what you quoted indicates that is.
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by mcBesse 4y ago
Wow, what a beautiful video. I really enjoyed trying to figure out what events and phenomena the different shapes/patterns in the diagram represent.
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by mcBesse 5y ago
> your own music taste determines what you think constitutes good music taste No, your own music taste determines what you think is good music. Taste is not about holding your own opinion higher than others', it's just about wh
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by mcBesse 6y ago
Seems to me that the results of the article suggest that such a slider would help. But I wonder if it wouldn't lose its effect after a while as people get exposed to it and begin filtering it out, a la cigarette warning labels and cook
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by mcBesse 6y ago
Most people aren't careful about what information is collected on them in the first place. Are people going to stop sharing things on Twitter because they're afraid of giving up one more tidbit of information to big data? I don&#x
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by mcBesse 6y ago
Seems to me that the mere existence of the slider would force people to share less misinformation, regardless of whether they seriously consider the rating they give or just ignore the slider altogether the second time they see it. In the
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by mcBesse 6y ago
What qualities do you think that would incentivize in a moderation system? I'm not feeling that tendency to share less misinformation is one of them, and I'd fear that richer people would have more power to control the narrative i
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by mcBesse 6y ago
> Has that ever worked? From section "Priming accuracy improves sharing": "[...] sharing discernment (the difference in sharing intentions for true versus false headlines) was 2.0 times larger in the treatment relative to