[ExI] elon on twitter

[Adrian Tymes]

> If software can drive a car, is there any reason to think it can’t
moderate content?

Recognizing what words mean is a different sort of task, and rather more
difficult, than recognizing safe physical conditions on the road.  In
theory it could someday be done effectively, but not without a lot more
work than has gone into Tesla - and once it was, we would be much closer to
"true" AI.

> That has nothing to do with politics.

The political angle is, as has been famously put, "Reality has a liberal
bias."  Or to put it more accurately, many so-called "conservative"
politicians rely on outright lies, far more on average than so-called
"liberal" politicians these days, to the point that anything enforcing
truth in politics is going to be seen as having an
anti-conservative-politician bias.  Twitter's moderation tries to veer
toward verified truth.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 6:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> OK so Elon owns Twitter now.  If you and I bought that outfit, we would do
> the same thing Elon is doing: working towards automating the content
> moderation.  Isn’t that a perfectly obvious thing to do?  If software can
> drive a car, is there any reason to think it can’t moderate content?
> Couldn’t you have something like the way car automation works, where a
> human still hasta sit behind the wheel to kinda watch over it?  You could
> have humans (way fewer of them probably) to just supervise the software.
> You could make the software filters public.
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> Wouldn’t you do the same if you owned Twitter?  Humans are expensive,
> software is cheap.  That has nothing to do with politics.  Nothing
> personal, just business.
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> spike
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