leftytighty

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

That's giving the algorithms too much credit. They don't encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they'll both be given equal weight.

As with anything profit motive driven it's just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it's sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

fuck I'm extremely far into my career I wish I got this tip sooner

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

It's easy for me to say, but now is the time to stubbornly live and be present and visible and together. They want you dead, defy them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

wouldn't it be nice if the profit motive wasn't the only driving force of the economy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

They're actively being combatted by the right.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Putting these valid points aside we're also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances..... This could very easily have been a much more chilling outcome

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a "snowflake liberal" by comparison

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

100 point top thread based on the second and third hand opinions of a Windows non-user really sums up the quality of this discussion lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The average human driver is tried and held accountable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't understand what you mean. I'm suggesting that China could be making a big deal of old news now that they are offering a viable alternative to Intel chips. Possibly to drum up more business globally, or to have an excuse to ban Intel chips domestically.

It could also be to make that threat in the face of increasing trade war escalation from the United States, as a sort of "watch what you're doing" warning.

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