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

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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