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Social Cooling (2017)

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Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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I wonder if I should upvote or downvote you, and what that will say about my HN profile to “big data analyses”

It doesn't matter. If you vote on politics a lot, a moderator will set your account so the votes don't do anything. HN is the illusion of user-generated content.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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Pity that "social cooling" gets attached to that meaning instead of, e.g., the fact to favorise, in internet discussions, themes that unite and reunite people, promote empathy and kindness, curiosity, tolerance and positive mindset, etc.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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You don’t need some kind of “social score” to have the chilling effect, if anything I think people self censor more because of the fear of getting berated by others for their beliefs—both by those they know and don’t. Interestingly I don’t think it’s really “cooling” that happened - if anything it’s been some people becoming extremely hot, and then the majority of people, myself included, are experiencing cooling. Un…

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> The racism and selfishness of right-wing politics is just … ugh, honestly, I just can’t. It’s Godless.

The first step would be to humbly recognize your side’s shortcomings. To me, aiding the destruction of malls, pardoning authors of crimes is bad, protesting against having borders is worse and defunding the police is a hallmark of criminality (and before you say it: Defunding doesn’t mean rearranging, it means defunding, according to protesters on your camp).

There are two essential Christian concepts that you skip when you unilaterally hold your opponent for contempt of humanity:

- Those who have never sinned should throw the first stone,

- Pardon.

Once you become milder in your accusations, maybe we can design a common world where we have common principles. I’d say those principles should be etched into law, but your side is against law enforcement, so it’s a bit complicated.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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Is the self censoring of big boy and girl worlds like "murder," "suicide," "execution," "Nazi," and "genocide" on videos and posts related to this? It's been driving me crazy. Do not go quietly into that night and whatnot... Do not comply in advance. The idea of changing my speech so my words look nice next to a Toyota advertisement fills me with disgust and anger.

No, its to avoid auto downranking, by which ever filter the platform uses. You can use all those words, but then, the theory goes, STT and OCR interprets the "bad" words and limits the reach of them.

But isn't this part of the problem? People just self-censor to not be censored.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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> The racism and selfishness of right-wing politics is just … ugh, honestly, I just can’t. It’s Godless. The first step would be to humbly recognize your side’s shortcomings. To me, aiding the destruction of malls, pardoning authors of crimes is bad, protesting against having borders is worse and defunding the police is a hallmark of criminality (and before you say it: Defunding doesn’t mean rearranging, it means def…

> Once you become milder in your accusations

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> but your side is against law enforcement

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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I honestly love this as someone who never has a consistent identity in terms of the name I use online and not keeping a long history such as re-creating accounts whenever it is convenient. This is especially relevant on social media platforms where I don't want to feel like someone can just dig up something I've said or shared 5 years ago and use that against me. It also helps me stay myself without changing my behav…

This website analyzes speech to find your probable alternative names on HN. It’s probably easy to recoup a few more signals to find your name on other apps:

https://stylometry.net/user?username=kachapopopow

NB: Seems offline, but it was quite efficient !

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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The Americans (†) who grew up with constant surveillance (social media, cameras everywhere) aim for ordinariness. The entire generation is less likely to express a non-consensus opinion than prior generations. For good reason: with everything being recorded and broadcast, personal errors are both accentuated and persist longer with no corresponding rise in upside. Bold opinions and creative ideas are simply too risky…

It helps to be already social isolated and socially suicidal. The freedom to think and speak, once again resides in a barrel and not with those who emptied it, who must stick to stagnant ideas with no explanation and prediction power.

(the sun will disappear August 23, 2044). True science. true knowledge puts itself to the test, by performing predictions and miracles. Everything else just ain't. Typed on a miracle, a electrically state-full rock, predicatively turning up and on every morning.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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You don’t need some kind of “social score” to have the chilling effect, if anything I think people self censor more because of the fear of getting berated by others for their beliefs—both by those they know and don’t. Interestingly I don’t think it’s really “cooling” that happened - if anything it’s been some people becoming extremely hot, and then the majority of people, myself included, are experiencing cooling. Un…

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Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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> The racism and selfishness of right-wing politics is just … ugh, honestly, I just can’t. It’s Godless. The first step would be to humbly recognize your side’s shortcomings. To me, aiding the destruction of malls, pardoning authors of crimes is bad, protesting against having borders is worse and defunding the police is a hallmark of criminality (and before you say it: Defunding doesn’t mean rearranging, it means def…

> Once you become milder in your accusations ... > but your side is against law enforcement

It’s easy to say “The other camp is extreme, so we have to”, but you’re welcome if you have any proposal.

My proposal is: I think an extreme lot of my camp would switch if there was an ethical left, with strong ethics but also not prone to degrading whites.

What’s your proposal?

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