[ExI] gaming the system

[Adrian Tymes]

How to game the system: be a sociable human being, who isn't trying to get
a rise or outraged reaction from people, isn't trying to spread
misinformation (and is willing to acknowledge when that which one believed
to be true has a lot of evidence suggesting it is false), and acts as if
all human beings are worth respect unless and until they do something to
revoke that (in particular: being born a certain way, such as black or
Mexican or female or gay, is not something they did).

It is distressing to ponder how many people might only adopt that morality
if forced to in this manner - but if it gets the job done, then let them
think they are gaming it.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 6:51 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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