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  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 year ago

    As an intelligent person who is constantly misunderstood, this is the secret sauce.

    Things make sense to me quickly and in a way that I can often communicate. But the words I use, the frames that makes sense to me, they often don’t resonate with other people. Thinking of ChatGPT is a probabilistic model tends to not go over well. But if I say, “Tell me, out of all the English words you know, what word do you think comes…” that would go over getter and more intuitively, for example.

  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comtoFediverse@lemmy.world•People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.English
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    1 year ago

    This is just standard (and good) criticism of capitalism. “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” as they saying goes.

    But there’s the question of whether the mass murder in Myanmar would have happened without Facebook. That’s impossible to know for sure, admittedly, but I still believe it’s possible to think about it meaningfully. Because my answer is mass murder would have probably happened without Facebook.

    The core of my argument is that technology merely allows humans to act more effectively and amplifies what we already do. What humanity does is not fundamentally changed by technology in most cases. And Facebook is one of the cases where the previously existing social division was amplified, where bad faith actors could act more effectively. Yes, Facebook had an important role to play by trying to make the platform addictive via algorithms that emotional content could hijack and spread like wildfire. However, while that doesn’t absolve Facebook’s instrumentality to mass murder altogether, it contextualizes it enough for me to treat it as any tool.

    In other words, a murder-shovel digs just as effectively as a non-murder-shovel, and I don’t really see an intrinsic problem with using the murder-shovel.

    The analogy of the tool fails when it comes to Zuckerberg’s role in directing Facebook to act as it did. A shovel doesn’t have a CEO dedicated to digging as much as possible; Facebook does have a CEO dedicated to making the platform addictive, the mechanism by which social divisions were amplified. I think his responsibility is complex…but he absolutely shares some responsibility for the tragedy.

    And so, that’s why I believe your post is a good, moralistic criticism of capitalism: it demonstrates how market relations obfuscate moral responsibility. Facebook mediates and helps satisfy our social needs while allowing us to ignore our role, however small it is, in perpetuating the means by which others can influence others to commit tragedies.

  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Silent majority is real
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    1 year ago

    Well, to understand the issue, you have to experience the content.

    A boycott of a song is going to make it a #1 hit because #1 hits are defined by how many times a song is listened to. And if you’re like, “Wtf did this jackass say?”, then you’re going to contribute to making it a #1 hit.

    In contrast, the right absolutely did watch the Budlight ad. But ad views does not make Budlight one of the most popular beers; rather, profit does. And if you just watch an ad and don’t buy the product, surprise surprise, you’re not contributing to Budlight’s market share.

    So, no, the silent majority isn’t real. The mechanics of what it means to “be the best” in each industry is really what makes this meme work. Also, the mechanics of what it means to be the best in each industry is why this meme fails.