You Are Now Less Dumb -
How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
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Sunday, 4 February 2018
quote [ Google Chrome will soon begin to block ads on some websites by default. I dug up some more information about how it will work. ...Google have announced that their Google Chrome web browser will block every ad on websites that are not compliant with the Better Ads Standards by default. ]
This might shift web advertising and directed support into a new phase. While obnoxious advertising sucks, blocking them is a significant part of why I took up paying folks via Patreon. There's a nice breakdown of the initial set of standards in extended.
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Taxman said @ 11:11pm GMT on 5th February
Ugh, nothingburger. I am going to have a little toast when that phrase finally dies. :-P
Metaphors generally die once you go past the first or second iteration of comparisons.
Ultimately, people are wired for selfishness, survival, and greed not because they're in inherently evil, but because that part of the brain isn't evolving anymore (as far as I can see, not a doctor). Front lobe is, but the back lobe is the scared monkey it's always been. Yes we've come together as a society and, yes, for the most part we don't kill each other. But it is at gun point that we don't (perhaps nuclear point is more appropriate?).
VR will be the same as the internet, in my opinion. Great, you've created the language of Babel (sensory input) that all people speak. We will bring the world together, and in our headsets and haptic suits digitally confirm that we are alone. I think your mind is open, and (ironically? tragically?) you've forgotten to speak the language of the closed minded. They are billions.
Downmodding is still a taste of what they want. The users paid attention enough to go through the steps to make their speech a little smaller, possibly filtered (then I just HAVE to see what they said). If you're truly trying to suppress, then make karma max out at -5/-3/-1 and 'heal' 1 a day. No posting, while in the negative. They'll get a comment in once a week? If they're rude, they're blasted away for a couple days, a week, etc.
Dialogue would be forced to change. Care would be taken in how one composes themselves. They'd have to earn positive karma if they want to say shitty things. Net gain for us all.
Just a thought.
Taxman said @ 11:14pm GMT on 5th February
Ugh, nothingburger. I am going to have a little toast when that phrase finally dies. :-P
Metaphors generally die once you go past the first or second iteration of comparisons.
Ultimately, people are wired for selfishness, survival, and greed not because they're inherently evil, but because that part of the brain isn't evolving anymore (as far as I can see, not a doctor). Front lobe is, but the back lobe is the scared monkey it's always been. Yes we've come together as a society and, yes, for the most part we don't kill each other. But it is at gun point that we don't (perhaps nuclear point is more appropriate?).
VR will be the same as the internet, in my opinion. Great, you've created the language of Babel (sensory input) that all people speak. We will bring the world together, and in our headsets and haptic suits digitally confirm that we are alone, so very alone. The AI will turn out to be better than people, and you'll have an entire generation that will engage with humanity as a light hobby, then back to the holodeck.
I think your mind is open, and (ironically? tragically?) you've forgotten to speak the language of the closed minded. They are billions.
Downmodding is still a taste of what they want. The users paid attention enough to go through the steps to make their speech a little smaller, possibly filtered (then I just HAVE to see what they said). If you're truly trying to suppress, then make karma max out at -5/-3/-1 and 'heal' 1 a day. No posting, while in the negative. They'll get a comment in once a week? If they're rude, they're blasted away for a couple days, a week, etc.
Dialogue would be forced to change. Care would be taken in how one composes themselves. They'd have to earn positive karma if they want to say shitty things. Net gain for us all.
Just a thought.
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Taxman said @ 11:11pm GMT on 5th February
Ugh, nothingburger. I am going to have a little toast when that phrase finally dies. :-P
Metaphors generally die once you go past the first or second iteration of comparisons.
Ultimately, people are wired for selfishness, survival, and greed not because they're inherently evil, but because that part of the brain isn't evolving anymore (as far as I can see, not a doctor). Front lobe is, but the back lobe is the scared monkey it's always been. Yes we've come together as a society and, yes, for the most part we don't kill each other. But it is at gun point that we don't (perhaps nuclear point is more appropriate?).
VR will be the same as the internet, in my opinion. Great, you've created the language of Babel (sensory input) that all people speak. We will bring the world together, and in our headsets and haptic suits digitally confirm that we are alone, so very alone. The AI will turn out to be better than people, and you'll have an entire generation that will engage with humanity as a light hobby, then back to the holodeck.
I think your mind is open, and (ironically? tragically?) you've forgotten to speak the language of the closed minded. They are billions.
Downmodding is still a taste of what they want. The users paid attention enough to go through the steps to make their speech a little smaller, possibly filtered (then I just HAVE to see what they said). If you're truly trying to suppress, then make karma max out at -5/-3/-1 and 'heal' 1 a day. No posting, while in the negative. They'll get a comment in once a week? If they're rude, they're blasted away for a couple days, a week, etc.
Dialogue would be forced to change. Care would be taken in how one composes themselves. They'd have to earn positive karma if they want to say shitty things. Net gain for us all.
Just a thought.
