Except that the end result wasn't a nicer person, it was that said person lost everything she spent a lifetime working for, because one (very likely out-of-context) statement was surveilled.
So, really, the whole concept is pure bullshit on its face.
In pretty much every single other business, what Uber calls "surge pricing" is referred to as "price gouging," and is illegal.
What's the difference between what Uber is doing today and what a handful of gas stations tried to pull on 9\11\2001? The fact Uber is getting away with it?
Movie-Plot Threat Contest entries.
as have Canadians.
Spreading false information isn't trolling, it's slander and/or libel. And if someone is committing a crime that hurts another person, they should rightly and justly be punished by law, not some phpBB plugin.
I feel the same way about commercials and TV theme songs.
More people have "fragile emotional states" these days because they've spent their lives being coddled and/or taught to respond to adversity by becoming a victim. When I was growing up bullies didn't say things on a website, they found you, beat your ass, then bragged about it to the whole school. Fortunately for me, my parents taught me that I was worth more than being some douches punching bag, and the important lesson that the only person who could control how I reacted to other people was me - besides, society isn't going to change because I'm having a hard time. Was it bad? Worse than most of the "whine about it on YouTube" generation could possibly imagine. Did I consider killing myself to end it all? Actually tried and failed a couple times to be honest.
But somehow I survived. Maybe its because I'm made of better stuff than other people, but that sounds. I ike self-aggrandizing bullshit to me. Rather, I believe it's because I realized that I was only a victim of my own self-loathing, and upon that realization learned how to have the confidence to stand up for myself in the face of, for lack of a better term, typical human dickishness.
Trolls (in the traditional sense), are easy enough to avoid - refuse to engage them and they'll eventually get bored and go bother someone else.
This is a key point. No military in the world is going to want a weapon system that they have zero control over.
Militaries? No.
Powerful despots who want armies who not only won't, but literally can't disobey orders? No matter how incomprehensibly immoral? Oh, very much yes.
Why does it matter if robots are better identifying bad people which was the point of the link.
Because letting the robots make that decision never works out well. Cmon, haven't you seen [insert almost any robot-based scifi here]?
Hmm, phone decided to post the response to the wrong comment...I blame Verizon. Maybe Google.
In other words, it's not so much a "troll detector," but rather a groupthink protection mechanism.
Better patent that bad boy, gonna be in high demand...
I can't wait til the anti-bullying crowd lobby for something like this...
... not once realizing the irony of their actions.
Personally I'm curious how it would function on a site like foxnews or huffpo - in the case of the latter, would it flag the one person posting pro-2nd Amendment comments, or would it flag everyone else when they pile one the aforementioned poster with mountains of venomous hatred?
It is stupid to me because it does not solve a problem. Detecting trolls is certainly not a problem, dealing with them is. They need to work on algorithm for that.
How about an algorithm for developing thicker skin?
Internet trolls only have the power you give them; many sites have an "ignore this douchebag" button anyway, so it's really a moot point.
Disqus, and the comment section at The Atlantic.
"The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman
