[ExI] elon on twitter

[Darin Sunley]

Historically, "enforcing truth" has not been a good look.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:22 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> > 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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