“ TL;DR: For a journalist, IMHO, think of your chatbot as a combination of an intern, a first-pass editor, and a fact-checker. It's job is to do grunt work and help you turn in cleaner copy”
I know very little about how the different voices there are moderated/synthesized I to what's shown. It's just an anonymous black box machine to me. But tes, it is a recent example of crowdharvesting some opinion!!
It’s really hard to not look at a train wreck in progress. Especially when it comes with a large drink of schadenfreude and a bucket of virtual popcorn.
I’m sad for what the destruction of Twitter and the people it affects, but at least the fireworks are cool.
Usually this is too vacuous of a criterion for comments on any other topic on HN. For some reason any post on Twitter has pages and pages of “yikes” “derp”, people gossiping about “Elon” like he’s their wayward cousin. Pathetic.
Elon is a cautionary tale about what can happen when a slightly clever, asocial, ADHD, internet troll finds himself with more money than God. He is the archetypal HN user gone off the deep end. This is like a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future for most of us.
I'm afraid I see many similarities with that older wayward cousin, John McAfee.
I truly hope Musk finds help, or finds that his coffers are harder to deplete than Johns, but it's not looking good.
"we", the hacker-crowd, indeed have some lessons to learn here.
I've only known one person brave enough to stand up to a toxic ceo in an "all hands" in 40 years of working. It's surprisingly hard to do. Nobody is really trapped but it can be very hard to just walk. I didn't. I wish I had.
Anyone in any kind of social media role, pretty much. And, although not literally forced, many others cannot ignore the advantage the platform brings: writers, gamedevs, journalists, etc.
>For example, if you’re looking at static inequality, Europe appears to be more egalitarian than the United States—their wealth is more evenly distributed across the population. But Taleb uses some statistics of dynamic inequality that propose America may be fairer than Europe. In Europe, more than a third of the five hundred wealthiest people inherited their wealth from family dynasties that have lasted for centuries. Compare this to the US, where 90% of the wealthiest five hundred people entered that list less than thirty years ago.
>Here’s another statistic on dynamic equality in America: 10% of Americans will spend at least one year in the top 1% of income earners, and more than half of all Americans will spend at least a year in the top 10% of income earners. Since what we’re trying to do is allow the market to reward those who contribute to society, greater turnover among the rich in the United States is a sign of fairness.
The problem is decline in elitism(in the arts, in politics, in the academy..) but nobody wants to hear that in these populist times. Democracy+markets are working extremely well for the masses, giving them exactly what they want.
Ted Gioia the music critic has made a lot of good observations on these issues. In particular, artists, intellectuals and politicians of old used to lead, persuade, and pull their audience along with them. Today, everyone simply panders.
