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Deadweight Loss as a Service

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Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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I suppose it's more that a culture that encourages actions that result in someone deemed unworthy experiencing negativity. Read as: don't say anything, ever*, anywhere that isn't droll corp-speak, because somebody, somewhere will have an issue with it and try to take you to task. If that somebody has a lot of followers, you could be out of a job/home/country/freedom. *trawling through post history et al to find narra…

yes, and they used to behead kings. it's culture. culture shuns what it rejects and lifts up. Shame is even ritualistic in some cultures. it's definitely just a phrase used by the short end of the stick. I'm sure there's a nuanced view of a culture that doesn't dive deep enough and mistakes some virtue and accidentally avoids something of value. but ultimately, it's a term that's just respinniing what cultures do. th…

They used to behead kings. And very often what followed was beheading the people who behead kings. And then we'd behead those that would behead the people that beheaded the king.

A culture doesn't progress just because it changes. It is not uncommon for complex systems to undergo changes that make them self-destructive. You talk about evolution, but the reproductively dominant cell in a complex organism is the cancer cell.

It is entirely plausible that western culture would become non-viable because of "cancel(/r) culture". And that cultures of the future would look in it the same way we look at organisms with poor tumor suppression mechanisms. And that too shall be evolution.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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That's a business model, not a joke.

A business model includes a transaction where one side gets value in exchange for returning value to the other side. When it is a one-sided transaction like this, where one side gives money and the other just pockets it... that is more often referred to as a "scam"

No, both parties get value. Suppose a user would receive 1 utility for donating $1 to some cause in a traditional fashion (e.g., giving the charity money directly). Using this platform and with an OmniMatch of 25%, the user will effectively donate $1.25 for the cost of $1 and accordingly get 0.25 extra utility. The user gets surplus utility no matter what. The platform, on the other hand, needs to be careful in what markets it creates and how it sets OmniMatch, in order to make money.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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Being Rickrolled just doesn't have the same feels now that Youtube will immediately blast an add in your face before you can enjoy the classic.

if you have YT premium you can get rickrolled in peace

If you pay the Danegeld to the Dane, I think “in peace” should be in quotes.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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I like how different people have different perspectives of the same event. I use Mozilla Firefox with uBlock Origin. YouTube videos do not play automatically when I click on YouTube links from other websites. Personally, my conspiracy theory is that somehow the YouTube team twisted Google Chrome team's arms to force them to make a byzantine system so that YouTube videos would pretty much always auto play. I cannot im…

> Personally, my conspiracy theory is that somehow the YouTube team twisted Google Chrome team's arms to force them to make a byzantine system... You're not far off. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay#media_engagement_...

Makes sense. Youtube kept blocking me because it detected ad blocking mechanisms. Being stubborn I would simply reload the page and clicked the x button before it had a chance to load up the blocking code and then the video would play fine.

After a while youtube gave up and no longer tries to force me to uninstall the ad blocking mechanisms.

That or the ad blocking mechanisms got better.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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post #34

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if you have YT premium you can get rickrolled in peace

If you pay the Danegeld to the Dane, I think “in peace” should be in quotes.

Paying for a service someone is providing and appeasing ransacking murderers doesn't really seem equivalent to me.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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I know this is a joke, too, but I worry that you aren't seeing the joke if you think there is something here. This is a setup to take in dollars from everyone and arbitrage the sentiment difference across the userbase, effectively meaning they don't have to pay anything and just take the dollars home. That's the joke. And anyone who actually would put in dollars are who the joke would be being played upon were it rea…

Yeah but imagine if there was something like this for real, only the dollars weren't greedily kept, but spent in some way that people on both sides support. Like, maybe pro-choice and anti-abortion supporters would both support the excess money going to support new mothers or adoption programs.

There is a similar game that distributes more of the money to causes where people vote with their dollars and antidollars and the winning side gets 1-epsilon of it because the operator of the game requires vigorish.

It's like poker with no cards. Ideally the winner puts in just a dollar more than the loser and they nearly double their donation. If the winner can't get enough information to do that and has to spend too much for the pot they end up making a huge unmatched contribution.

The game makes sense to play if you're sure you will win but you don't want to start it if you think you won't.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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> Personally, my conspiracy theory is that somehow the YouTube team twisted Google Chrome team's arms to force them to make a byzantine system... You're not far off. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay#media_engagement_...

Makes sense. Youtube kept blocking me because it detected ad blocking mechanisms. Being stubborn I would simply reload the page and clicked the x button before it had a chance to load up the blocking code and then the video would play fine. After a while youtube gave up and no longer tries to force me to uninstall the ad blocking mechanisms. That or the ad blocking mechanisms got better.

I have a similar experience. Though for me i didn't evade them, i just didn't visit for a ~week. When i eventually tried again, suddenly it wasn't a problem again.

Wondered if i was part of some a/b and they rolled back? no idea. Either way i'll happily drop YT if they try that shit without giving me a sane "no ad" tier lol.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

#59

Being Rickrolled just doesn't have the same feels now that Youtube will immediately blast an add in your face before you can enjoy the classic.

I just don't get the entitlement around Youtube. It costs money to maintain the servers and keep it running, 24/7 so you can enjoy the content. It certainly doesn't owe you a free Rickroll.

If for whatever reason Youtube wants to enshittify its service to destroy its UX it is 100% within its rights to do so.

If you want it to (temporarily) work again, just get everyone within 6 degrees of separation from you to sign up for Youtube Premium.

Re: Deadweight Loss as a Service

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Being Rickrolled just doesn't have the same feels now that Youtube will immediately blast an add in your face before you can enjoy the classic.

I just don't get the entitlement around Youtube. It costs money to maintain the servers and keep it running, 24/7 so you can enjoy the content. It certainly doesn't owe you a free Rickroll. If for whatever reason Youtube wants to enshittify its service to destroy its UX it is 100% within its rights to do so. If you want it to (temporarily) work again, just get everyone within 6 degrees of separation from you to sign…

How is this entitlement? They are just stating a fact, a surprise video isn’t really a surprise when you have ad roll first. They make no value judgement about youtube, you projected that.
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