AI is a useful tool, for all its flaws and negative externalities.

“If you ignore the negatives for everyone else and just focus on the positives for me, it’s pretty great”

Mhmm. Right, ok.

People who want to believe Anthropics AI is powerful.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool

The omarchy website lists them.

can’t comprehend how

A lot of people choose not to comment when they don’t understand what’s going on. Or if they comment, they ask questions.

There’s good reasons for that.

1. It’s a TPU poll. I stopped watching as soon as he said that.
2. If some Labour voters switch to other parties in the left bloc that makes no difference overall. Maybe that’s what’s happening, I don’t know :)

That does sound cheaper and easier!

The party said its plan would cost about $2.8b.

Not sure where your 6 billion thing is coming from?

I look forward to other parties putting forward ideas for bringing down the price of food. But I’m not holding my breath.

I hope Opportunity get in, it’d be good to have some different voices for a change.

Think of it as a compromise, compared to full nationalization.

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2190040/who-decides-what-you-see-on-the-fediverse-a-look-at-voting-patterns

PieFed instance admins can set a limit to how many votes each account can cast each day. I set the default value for this at a level that 99% of us will never reach.

This pissed off some of the 1% (or people who thought they were the 1% but weren’t) so they spent weeks spreading FUD about it.

2-3 times a week is nothing. 2-3 per day is completely fine.

It would only be used for the most flagrant accounts, ones with some level of automation - dozens of posts per day with almost no comments. That sort of thing.

I too find content on other networks (mostly Mastodon, occasional YouTube) and post them here. Often a few per day. But it’s all completely manual and I usually rewrite the description, add hashtags, etc. And I’ll interact with people who comment on the posts. Cross-pollination of content is normal and good.

There’s a point though, usually enabled by using some extra software tools like the one above, where someone ends up flooding their target communities, not responding to comments on the posts, looking inauthentic when they repost OC which plainly isn’t theirs and causing extra moderation work because their content is in the wrong places. Sanitation is the most obvious example of this but there are others.

Despite this, a lot of people upvote and comment on their posts. I don’t know if

1. they’re even aware of who the author is. Most apps do not emphasise this strongly so it’s easy to miss.
2. if they are aware then are they aware that the author is ignoring them and won’t learn from the feedback they’re getting?

… Or if they don’t care. Maybe they’re just content with the conversation in the comments without the OPs involvement. That’s valid (although not the kind of conversation I personally want to be a part of).

It’s probably a combination of don’t know and don’t care. For those people, labelling sanitation et al as a bot would seem heavy-handed. That’s why I’m leaning towards creating an in-between state, for these kinds of centaur accounts.

YSK that I’ve tagged all those accounts as bots on piefed.social.

Unlike on Lemmy, on PieFed people can choose to still see bot-generated posts but have them semi-transparent which makes them easy to scroll past OR interact with if you want. As well as the Lemmy option of just filtering them out entirely.

e.g. like this example:

I’ve also been thinking that a binary “this is a bot” or “this is human” flag is too limited and we need a third option - “this is a reposter” and people could choose to make-transparent, filter out or show their posts independently of the bot-or-not setting.

Very interesting and lots of detail on the 5 year plans. Thanks!

After reading this I checked my backup system and found it hadn’t worked for the last month because a disk was full.

Woops!

This must have been going on for decades. Ridiculous, humans.

Yup. If there’s anywhere that can absorb the umm influx of 5000 stir-crazy men all at once, it’s Pattaya. Plus every bar girl from Bangkok will be there to lend a hand - it’s only a couple of hours drive away.

If sanitation would tick this box in their settings then all their problems would go away:

But they won’t, because that would let people filter them out.

War is not rational. Do not expect it to make sense.

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