Hi folks! Building up on the recent experiment and the #LessWrongMoreNice meme, this thread is devoted to any and all expressions of gratitude. Special rules for communication and voting apply here. Please play along!
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I'm grateful to you for following the spirit of this thread!
Sigh. They are not InIn participants. They are people you pay to "manage" social media and they are bungling the job in a rather spectacular fashion.
Call them off.
The scarier thought is how often we're manipulated that way when people don't bungle their jobs. The few heuristics we use to identify such mischief are trivially misled (for example, establishing plausibility by posting on inconsequential other topics (at least on LW that incurs a measurable cognitive footprint, which is however not the case on, say, Reddit), and then there's always Poe's law to consider). Shills man, shills everywhere!
As they dictum goes, just cuz you're paranoid ...
Reminds me of Ernest Hemingway's apparent paranoid delusions of being un... (read more)