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Re:YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist O... by Retric on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:10AM (#25245983)
Logic unfortunately tends to fail in the real world. Even seemingly concrete ideas like life and death get tricky when dealing with frozen sperm and viruses. Edge cases abound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics) People really want stuff like Bayesian statistics to work. But it’s also fails for similar reasons as it depends on accurately updating a model.

The world is filled with models that are simple enough to use and accurate enough to be useful, sadly that doesn’t make them correct.

Censorship seems so simple on the surface, but like everything else the implementation rarely matches the theory. I would argue for disclaimers as a much better option, even if they also fail.

Re:YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist O... by 6510 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:44PM (#25267573)
I suppose the question is who should get to engineer the population? Traditionally governments did this job. This gets pretty draconian in some cases but until it does I don't need any committee of unelected faceless corporate directors dictating how I should think? Or do I?

Perhaps it isn't the right question. Say you have a bunch of people as raw resources. What should you make from those? I kinda like my people as-is but this seems a moving target.