200 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 11 Apr \ on: How to know if you are in the oppressive party FiresidePhilosophy
Great post. I'd never thought about the "measuring qualifying statements" as correlate of anything. I wonder if you could do NLP on various forms of media and actually chart this? It would come down to how easily you could recognize those hedging statements. Fascinating idea.
I think you're right. People do what people do: they are biased, self-serving, bad listeners, and avoidant of uncomfortable information. That's human beings, of which SN users and bitcoiners are a subset.
The ability -- the desire -- to stare at reality and not flinch doesn't correlate with any sizeable group that I've ever found. Bitcoiners believe themselves to be exceptional, and in believing it, prove that they aren't. Not about this, anyway.
I think it would be fascinating as well. If one wanted to conduct a less technically sound experiment, one could simply go on various social media and make comments that have the exact same point of view but with and without qualifiers and document the responses they get.
One downstream implication could be how AI models use this data for context. IE, if something needs qualifications maybe it deems it as controversial whereas if something does not need qualifications it is not controversial.
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