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Recommends swombat · 2013-05 · on “Lies on the London Underground [video]”

You seem unreasonably grumpy... take a breath, chill out. I enjoyed the video and upvoted it - as did many others, clearly. It's of interest to hackers. Tom Scott is also "one of us" - a geek comedian. Probably one of the reasons why others have been upvoting this. You might enjoy this excellent video of his talk at Ignite a few years back: [this video]

Cites theorique · 2012-09 · on “What Happens When You Taunt 4Chan: Story of Lacey Vicich ”

These are some interesting points. You're absolutely right that the anonymous and distributed nature of 4chan means that the "/b/" entity can react to perceived slights (trolling, mockery) in a radically disproportionate way. If the individual provoker annoys /b/ with "strength" 1, and (e.g.) 10 000 /b/ denizens are each sufficiently annoyed to push back at the provoker with equal "strength" 1, that means that the reaction to the individual is profoundly out of proportion to the original attack. By a factor of thousands. It's like burning someone's house down with their family inside because they dented your bumper without leaving a note. But as you point out, few individuals were all that n

Critical jcahill · 2020-07 · on “Yoloface-500k: ultra-light real-time face detection model, 500kb”

I'm similarly unclear on what sort of response you expect. There weren't many comments when I replied. My criticism was tailored to a fairly specific phenomenon: asymmetrically imaginative doomsaying that appeals to a vivid vignette / sketch of an adjacent possible future featuring some hyperbolically elaborated extension of trending tech, like Flash Mob Gone Wrong[1] and Slaughterbots[2]. HN flagging and points are irrelevant to me. ____________________ [1]: [this video] [2]: [LINK]