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Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by unselect5917 »

hightrix wrote: post #112
unselect5917 wrote: post #78

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America and Japan have been discussing BBQ for about a week and. And the Japanese have just discovered ranch dressing. It's hilarious to watch. Russians recently joined in and, they're fuckin' hilarious in a way that only Russians could be: https://imgur.com/GaTnQk7.jpg The people who hate Musk/X always out themselves by flagrantly lying about it/him.

So a couple of people in Japan tried ranch for the first time and it is news worthy? If this isn’t a paid marketing post, you should apply!

You can tell someone is having a very emotional response when they respond with a strawman fallacy like "a couple of people in Japan tried ranch for the first time"

And that's when you stop engaging with the bad-faith actor:

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by unselect5917 »

snag wrote: post #102
unselect5917 wrote: post #77

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Apple has only a 15-19% market share in mobile phones globally https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/apple-iphone-ma...

Well google doesn't publish their ranking so we go with the data we have, not the data we want. Do you have secret unpublished play store rankings?

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by thunderfork »

unselect5917 wrote: post #120
angoragoats wrote: post #119

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“If you reject the Nazi bar out of hate for Nazis, you’re simply missing out on some really cool stuff happening.” Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds? I’m not going to grab a beer at the Nazi bar just because there are occasionally cool people there who aren’t Nazis. > I made this myself (with grok's help) to celebrate: No, a slop generator generated it for you. You did not make it yourself, in any sense of the p…

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"argument from similie I disagree with" is not a strawman

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by thunderfork »

unselect5917 wrote: post #121
hightrix wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So a couple of people in Japan tried ranch for the first time and it is news worthy? If this isn’t a paid marketing post, you should apply!

You can tell someone is having a very emotional response when they respond with a strawman fallacy like "a couple of people in Japan tried ranch for the first time" And that's when you stop engaging with the bad-faith actor: >Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

"this doesn't sound as interesting as you seem to think it is" is not a strawman

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by unselect5917 »

thunderfork wrote: post #123
unselect5917 wrote: post #120

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"argument from similie I disagree with" is not a strawman

You literally made up something in your own head, put it in quotes, and then pretended I said it.

Textbook strawman fallacy. Twice.

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by stevage »

deafpolygon wrote: post #118
stevage wrote: post #83

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That's a ton of effort. And often I do want to follow someone for their tech content, I just don't want their politics.

Then don’t follow them. That’s just encouraging their politics. I mean, vote with your follow.

I'm not saying I disagree with their politics, I just don't want to read it. But the same would apply even if I did disagree - you're just promoting further division.

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by angoragoats »

unselect5917 wrote: post #120
angoragoats wrote: post #119

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“If you reject the Nazi bar out of hate for Nazis, you’re simply missing out on some really cool stuff happening.” Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds? I’m not going to grab a beer at the Nazi bar just because there are occasionally cool people there who aren’t Nazis. > I made this myself (with grok's help) to celebrate: No, a slop generator generated it for you. You did not make it yourself, in any sense of the p…

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Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by piperswe »

pixel_popping wrote: post #110
hilariously wrote: post #108

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But you are ok with Discord? :/

I personally don't use either X or Discord, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's significant overlap between those who boycott X and those who don't use Discord.

Re: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

jackie293746 wrote: post #100
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #76

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I would emphasize mis informed, not un informed. If Policy X has 30% of people politely supportive, 20% of people politely opposed, and 50% of people incandescently furious about it, you're going to mistakenly think it has majority support.

What makes you think policy positions on Twitter are representative of anything at all..

People absorb politics from our social environment. We judge what's good and bad, what's controversial and uncontroversial, based on our models of the political discussions we've heard among peers and what we imagine they'd say. Every Twitter user I know comes to believe that the political dynamics on Twitter are a reasonable approximation of the political dynamics in the US, no matter how much they repeat the mantra that Twitter isn't real life, and this leads them to repeatedly overestimate how much people support crazy niche positions or care about esoteric issues.
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