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conicalscientist

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    Is Reddit in/directly attacking lemmy instances with controversial AI posts to overpower mods and reduce user experience?

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  • 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".

  • Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care

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  • 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.

  • China's unemployed Gen Z are proudly calling themselves 'rat people' and spending entire days in bed

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  • 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.

  • old internet

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  • There's more computing power than ever but seemingly fewer services than ever.

  • The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History

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  • 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.

  • Make no mistake, my whole life has just been me watching america circle the drain.

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  • I think it delayed the inevitable. By the 90s, right wing American extremism was on the rise. 9/11 put up a facade of unity (as long as you didn't look middle eastern). The right wing movements went quiet for 15 years. America returned to trajectory in 2016.

  • Are anti-Lemmy sentiments being botted?

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  • 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.

  • Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

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

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  • 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.

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • 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.

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • 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.

  • Woman called a child the N word, then she claimed to be the victim. So far she raised over $150,000

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  • You're a professional victim.

  • ‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

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  • 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.

  • McDonald’s Blames Trump ‘Uncertainty’ for Worst Sales Since COVID

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  • 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 don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

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  • 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.

  • ‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

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  • 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.

  • ‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

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  • The internet is raising them. They aren't going outside and saying these things where at least one man would smack him upside the head in order to correct bad behavior. They aren't going outside and trying this shit on women who will reject their bad behaviors. Or worse running to legal trouble for harassing or assaulting women. Whereby it used to be the guy would self reflect and realize he's doing it wrong.

    The internet is telling them stories about how these behaviors are what the "alpha" males are doing to successfully get all the women. What is the bullshit stat? Like 1% of top men get 99% of women or some stupid shit.

    The internet lies to them, painting a dark twisted world. And then these guys go out to the real world to treat women in the way they think the world is some kind of dark world. They get extreme negative experiences. Which to them proves that the internet was right about everything.

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  • It's not very wild when you realize you're talking to addicts. The whole world is addicted.

  • Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.

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  • I don't find very much interesting about this conversation anymore. If it can even be called that. American politics is like scripted television drama. It's quite fitting. Except it's so predictable. It's the same script on loop.