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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: MrMind 09 February 2015 09:12AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 13 February 2015 03:40:30PM 2 points [-]

Social media -- do you feel lucky, punk?

Comment author: tut 15 February 2015 06:51:58PM 3 points [-]

Both your description and the title sound like clickbait. Would you mind adding one sentence saying what the linked thing is about?

Comment author: Lumifer 19 February 2015 04:21:21PM 1 point [-]

Sure. One way to say it is that the linked article is about low-probability major-consequences risk of linking your real, legal, meatspace, True Name to social media accounts. Another way to look at it is that it is about the habits of internet mobs and the post-traumatic stress syndrome of those trampled by them.