Your entire premise rides on the notion you know peoples intent for downvoting. You cannot read minds.
Your entire premise rides on the notion you know peoples intent for downvoting. You cannot read minds.
Perhaps I misunderstood your intent. So youre trying to control other peoples behavior but its for their own good because theyre too naive to know whats best for themselves and you know better what is right for them. Now that I understand youre in fact a savior with good intent I retract my former criticism. Youre far too clever for all these fools you must suffer surrounding you but yet you soldier on educating the unwashed masses on how to live “right”. Carry on brave warrior. I would suggest you read up on another brave warrior philosopher in your lineage. He is written about in “the legend of narcissus”
I downvote anyone who is weirdly obsessed with controlling other peoples upvote/downvote behavior.
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There goes my weekend
Being old enough I used to wear an onion on my belt heres my perspective. I see it like back in the day we had radio and tv. Radio often played songs you didnt like. I remember thinking how awesome it would be to have a station that only played what I liked and no “shitty” music. But alas, when a shitty song came on you changed the station or turned it down. Same with tv. They were a public good and we had to tolerate what others preferred. I see it as my personal responsibility to curate my lemmy experience and thankfully theyve given me the tools to do so. It takes 2 seconds to block a shitty user and instances that arent to my liking. This was difficult on reddit due to the size and firehose nature of it but its quite effective here, for now. Do I see comments I dont like? All the time…once. Then that user is blocked. Hopefully people who dont like the cut of my jib have blocked me as well so their experience is better tailored to them. If your expectation is the radio station never plays a shitty duran duran song youre gonna be disappointed. And in general if you try to control other people youll find yourself frustrated. Be careful who you give your time and attention to.
AI will be used to increase shareholder dividends. If your company just happens to involve healthcare, warfare, etc and AI makes decisions to maximize profit then youre just collateral damage with no human to blame. Sorry your husband died of cancer, the computer did it.
Shoutout to all the tip of the spear folks here on lemmy for devaluing reddits ipo. Even if it makes a minimal dent kudos for taking the more difficult road and standing on principle.
Hmmmm. Whats the chance nukes will cause us to go extinct? Less than 5%?
Solid response
Im convinced that the “nothing will happen” troupe online serves to lower the publics expectations which clears the path for corporations and government to rape and pillage. Reminds me of the voting is ineffective crowd. Same folks?
Turns out business is easy when running a virtual monopoly while receiving truckloads of government welfare. Shit gets harder when actual car manufacturers get in on the game, competing with an i-phone you put wheels on and called a car.