codewell

I don't necessarily assume, but I do believe, that consciousness is an artifact of the complex system of our brains, or any thinking-system-with-a-serious-representation-of-itself. I take umbrage with possibly being considered therefore to be "ignoring the hard problem of consciousness."

But more interestingly, I wonder if this has a connection to the recent "internal monologue" meme? Perhaps those of us who don't have much inner speech tend to discount the importance of the consciousness question, and those of us with strong inner speech tend to amplify the importance of consciousness?

Perhaps it's a newer term. Now "short and distort" is around, for instance prominently as section 3 in the wikipedia article on "pump and dump" [0], and investopedia [1] also describe it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump [1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortanddistort.asp

The short version is called short and distort. I'd like to see stats on which is more common.

It's true that longs and shorts could both benefit from spreading false rumors. But shorts have an expiration date which can cause them to be much more incentivized to drive a rapid price change.

dvd.netflix.com seems to still use the old reliable ratings predictor. Downloading (netflix.com) uses a much inflated predictor that seems designed to push popular stuff. I imagine they have to do this to obscure that the selection is so much poorer for download.