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Technical Tradeoffs in AI Systems: Marketing Claims vs Reality

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19 November 2022 13h13

what i still want to know is *how* it does both and what tradeoffs are made to get there. asked this before but still havent gotten an answer i can take with me to be an effective advocate for SS. all the marketing is “haha tradeoffs dont exist!” and that doesn’t sit right

Twitter Community Notes: Contributing to Platform Data Transparency

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19 November 2022 7h49

You can sign up to contribute to it here https://
help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt
er/community-notes
… They also do data dumps, which are pretty fun to poke around in:

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Twitter Free Speech Platform Neutrality and Content Moderation

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19 November 2022 7h45

Freedom of speech means Twitter not putting its thumb on the scale.

Decentralized Systems: Avoiding Centralization Risks in AI

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19 November 2022 7h31

The challenge here is that centralized systems will ALWAYS have a usability advantage. The cost of that is that they can be bought, and ruined We gotta put a bit of extra work in if we want to avoid that happening to us again in the future

Decentralized Networks Worth Their Infrastructure Costs

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19 November 2022 0h38

Generally though there are definite costs involved in having a network that someone like Elon can't ruin I've decided that I can tolerate them

Mastodon’s Decentralization Protects Users From Billionaire Control

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19 November 2022 0h33

After the past couple of weeks it turns out the one feature I care most about is that a billionaire can't buy my online home and ruin it – and that's the single feature Mastodon has that nothing else (at least of the same scale) has been able to offer