[ExI] Russians bots at work again?

[Darin Sunley]

My point about sneering had nothing to do with whether it was deserved or
not, or even whether this is the appropriate place to do it.

It's that it doesn't /work/. It is /counter/-productive. It is literally
/ir/rational.

You have operational goals with respect to these people. You wish them to
come to believe certain things, and you wish them to come to act in certain
ways.

Sneering not only does /not/ advance your goals, it /hurts/ them. No matter
how good it feels to sneer at the deplorable outgroup, it is a dumb thing
to do.

Sneering at the "deplorable" outgroup arguably got Trump elected. It is a
stupid, self-destructive, irrational thing to do.

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 12:37 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Conspiracy theories existed long before the internet, Spike. They have a
> strong habit of morphing instead of dying.
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> SR Ballard
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> On Jun 27, 2020, at 10:15 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> > *On Behalf Of *SR Ballard via extropy-chat
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Russians bots at work again?
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> Conspiracies never die. It might be bots but also conspiracies do this by
> themselves anyways.
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> SR Ballard
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> How do we know conspiracies do this by themselves?  If we have a system in
> which we create positive feedback loops by paying content providers a
> fraction of a cent for each like, then they create likebots which like the
> post a few hundred million times, how would we know any human ever liked
> that post?  If we have such a system, it is money laying unclaimed for
> anyone who can write a likebot, ja?  The conspiracy itself could have died
> long ago, but would still make money for the person who wrote and somehow
> deployed the likebot.
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> spike
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