Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 04:12:52 JST billiam :4chan:
   I found a website similarity engine. What that means is that you give it a website and it gives you similar websites. It is quite uncencored in its results.
   https://explore2.marginalia.nu/
   
   I've add some examples (see pics) of "dissident" or "controversial" websites.
   
   The creator justifies it by going after the Q cult (easy targets). Who knows if he is being cynical or sincere.
   > If you for example point the website explorer to the fringes of politics, it will map that web-space with terrifying accuracy.
   
   > qanon.pub’s neighbors: https://explore2.marginalia.nu/search?domain=qanon.pub
   
   > Note again how few of those websites are actually indexed by Marginalia. Only those websites with ‘MS’ links are! The rest are inferred from the data. On the one hand it’s fascinating and cool, on the other it’s deeply troubling: If I can create such a map on PC in my living room, imagine what might be accomplished with a datacenter.
   
   > You might think “Well what’s the problem? QAnon deserves all the scrutiny, give them nowhere to hide!”. Except this sort of tool could concievably work just as well as well for mapping democracy advocates in Hong Kong, Putin-critics in Russia, gay people in Uganda, and so forth.
   
   from his blog: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/69-creepy-website-similarity/
   • Embed this notice
     billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 04:12:51 JST billiam :4chan:

     in reply to

     • augustus pugin 🌖
     it seems like substack and wordpress(dot)com can somewhat break it
     
     Some interesting articles for @augustus from the first result
     >Does academia discriminate against geniuses, and could this explain the decline of science?
     https://juliusbranson.wordpress.com/2020/10/07/does-academia-discriminate-against-geniuses-and-could-this-explain-the-decline-of-science/
     >Attacking Moldbug: A brief critique of his style and epistemic methods
     https://juliusbranson.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/attacking-molbug-a-brief-critique-of-his-style-and-epistemic-methods/
     augustus pugin 🌖 likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 04:13:51 JST augustus pugin 🌖

     in reply to
     @billiam I don't know which is greater for me, Moldbug fatigue or critiques-of-Moldbug fatigue