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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:23:29 JST Bread up, Bro
   not sure how I feel about this. I think that "updoots" is part of what makes reddit so cancerous.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:24:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     I guess a like being "please content system bring me more of this content" isn't unlike what netflix does, but who knows
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:33:22 JST Bloodytailspike

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     @sickburnbro Elon wants to like CoalKagathos Asuka rape posts without anyone knowing
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:33:22 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Bloodytailspike
     @monsterislandcolonizer I mean he can make as many socks as he wants, but he is absolutely doing it .. for some purpose. It could be simply advertising or it could be him trying to make sure the country doesn't fall apart before he can make his mars rocketship.
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     longshanks (NHTB RIP) (longshanks@nationalist.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:40:05 JST longshanks (NHTB RIP)

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     I’m sure the sysadmin sees who liked things. Interesting data extraction/mining strategy for negating the Bradley effect.

     Bread up, Bro likes this.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:19:21 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • veff :trash:
     @veff I'm wary of SSX's articles because too often like this he is indulging in motivated reasoning.
     
     "Studies sometimes claim that only 2 to 8 percent of rape allegations are false." is an example of poor reasoning which drives conclusions.
     
     Everyone needs to understand that humans are social animals and will find methods to seek consensus.
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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:19:22 JST veff :trash:

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     @sickburnbro I've never been a fan of the updoot system that most social media has, because it feeds into "the toxoplasma of rage" and that's one big reason why fedi has become steadily worse.

     https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

     Public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior. For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be 'edgy' in fear of retaliation from trolls, or to protect their public image

     Very odd justification, if I were more schizo, I'd think theyre trying to honeypot prominent public figures who have xitter accounts attached to their real name.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:21:10 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @monsterislandcolonizer @doctorsex One can only assume he isn't taking an action that will destroy the profitability of the company, yes.
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:21:11 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @doctorsex @sickburnbro Im sure there is a marketing dynamic but I'm asking if it's cynical or not. I think don't think it is.
     We say we hate libtards but libtards cost him billions of dollars in real life, he has a monetary incentive to hate them.
     I think Charles Haywood is right that either USG impoverishes him or it dies, because the only thing between him and putting humans on Mars is the American government.
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     Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq. (doctorsex@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:21:12 JST Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

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     • Bloodytailspike
     I think it's marketing. He's leaned heavily into the mainstream conservative culture war free speech kind of stuff
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:21:12 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.
     @doctorsex @sickburnbro Is it only for marketing purposes or is it because that's what Elon likes?
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     Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq. (doctorsex@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:21:12 JST Dr. Sex, Ph.d, Esq.

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     • Bloodytailspike
     I don't think those two are mutually exclusive. I'm not going to pretend I know what's going on in his head- he *seems* at least mostly sincere with this stuff- but I do believe there's absolutely a marketing component to the fact he's so public about it.
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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:34:39 JST veff :trash:

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     @sickburnbro It's been a while since I've even read the article, but the lense of "if you surround yourself with cat shit eventually you'll like it" is evocative and useful, but I feel compelled to attach the article so passersby know what I'm referencing.

     Reposts arguably are worse than likes, though, because your introducing tumblr-brain into the ecosystem. I still use likes/reposts, but I'm consciously trying to make them less rage enducing to my mutuals even if it gives me less traffic.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:34:39 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • veff :trash:
     @veff for sure, and I've read the article before.
     
     Here is an example of his poor logic:
     
     "A while ago I wrote a post called Meditations on Moloch where I pointed out that in any complex multi-person system, the system acts according to its own chaotic incentives that don’t necessarily correspond to what any individual within the system wants. The classic example is the Prisoner’s Dilemma, which usually ends at defect-defect even though both of the two prisoners involved prefer cooperate-cooperate."
     
     The system doesn't act. People act. Prisoner's Dilemma models a real world system. Does no-one benefit from prisoners defecting? Yes, the people running the prison benefit.
     
     There isn't "chaos" in a system, what you have is a complex flow kind of system where what you get is kind of the lowest energy solution to what people want.