Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by BrianOnHN on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:54AM (#31026300)

Do both democratic and meritocratic methods of polling suggest the opinion is harmful? Delete.

Otherwise it stays until consensus.

The edge cases pale in comparison to the broadly accepted manipulation of a near-majority. And furthermore compared to the point-of-no-return where the majority is sufficiently manipulated.

Edit: downstream comments emphasizing the edge cases must've missed my last paragraph. The improvement only has to be better than doing nothing. Right now doing nothing is arguably acutely affecting almost 50% of the US population. No way the edge cases add up to that.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:56AM (#31026334)

> democratic and meritocratic methods of polling suggest the opinion is harmful? Delete.

This is, in essence, selecting for experts spouting popular opinions. That’s a dangerous incentive model. (All before we even get to the question of delineating the experts.)

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by ImPostingOnHN on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:45AM (#31026907)

it's almost as dangerous as non-experts spouting bad, counterfactual objective claims and pretending they are experts

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by pigeonhole123 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:11AM (#31027273)

Which doesn’t sound very dangerous to me

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by monkey_monkey on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:33AM (#31027566)

Except that in the last 12 months, people have literally died because they believed non-experts creating and amplifying anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

'I wish I'd been jabbed'...

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by BrianOnHN on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:22AM (#31028122)

Thanks for this.

It's like, other people would rather ignore reality, life and death, than budge on their uneducated opinions.

Ego is the enemy.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by nradov on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:09AM (#31026482)

Should the majority be able to suppress the speech of minorities when they express unpopular opinions on, let's say, civil rights and equality? What is meritocratic polling and who specifically gets to evaluate merit?

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