[ExI] gaming the system

[William Flynn Wallace]

You mean there's modern poetry with rhyme and rhythm?  I quit taking the
New Yorker and ATlantic Monthly partly because of the horrible poetry they
publish - no rhymes, no meter, obscure in the meaning department.  Of
course you have 'lower level' stuff, like Breathe that I circulated, that
the magazines would never print - literary profs would burn the issue in
public as a protest against sensible poetry.  bill w

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 8:51 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Regarding Musk’s notion of making the Twitter content filters public led
> to the observation that this could make it easier to game the system.
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> That rattled around in my brain like a golf ball in a 55 gallon drum.  I
> came up with an idea (as is my wont (or one of my many wonts (such as
> wanting excuses to use the term wont (they call me the wont-monster.))))
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> An earlier observation was the comedy gold provided by the Babylon Bee,
> which made a skit of an overly sensitive Twitter employee freaking about
> Musk buying Twitter.  Then Twitter played along with the gag by slapping a
> sensitive content label on a tweet about sensitive Twitter employees
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> chose the label.))  But it isn’t entirely clear the label was Twitter
> playing along with the gag.  It might be that software did that, and that
> their software is flawed.  I chose the more charitable interpretation
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> Regarding Musk’s notion of making that software public (not defeating it,
> just making it public domain): that would allow users to download the
> filter, run a test case on an edgy post, shape it, edit it, rework it until
> it gets by without a warning.  So this would be a form of gaming the
> system, and could spawn an entirely new genre in a sense: how to creatively
> word a message in such a way as to communicate an idea around
> restrictions.  Gaming Twitter then becomes analogous to poetry in a way,
> where you say things with a rhyme and a rhythm, to communicate ideas in a
> framework of sorts.  Going around Twitter filters becomes modern poetry.
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> spike
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