Oddbean

I see a lot of personal bias on Nostr but not a lot of systemic intentional bias-fueled posts written purposely to manipulate. It’s not big enough for people to wake up and ask how they can inject the most misinformation as possible into a sentence, yet.

Nostr plebs please take note that "personal bias" is somehow different from "systemic intentional bias*. nostr:nevent1qqsxnmf5fvwkjkxt866dqglw4q4w6pyrfug6hnt7lx95kspqvy5ks3qpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsyg82krn4d5etsz7dge8nmpztspqrqvr45yl2hs6enfmzexk84wglfupsgqqqqqqs96zkxz

I scrolled down your timeline and it has zero or a few likes per post. There are no Nostr plebs listening to you. It’s actually kind of sad. Just come back into realistic dialogue with the rest of us rather than being a cliche bot.

If “accidentally checked notifications when non-important people comment but they’re still fresh” qualifies, then sure. And I do tend to get provoked on repetitious thematic items. People who do the “reply guy” thing for 25+ cynical posts in a row on any medium start to look like losers. I’m usually nice for like five times and then after that I’m like, “this is either a retard or someone purposely trolling.” I don’t want you to look like a loser, Frank. You’re here on Nostr persistently and don’t even like bitcoin. That’s fine. That’s why I haven’t muted you yet but probably will soon like I do with bots increasingly, since you’re almost as predictable as bots now. I only mute bots and pseudo-bots. Instead, I invite you to emotionally redirect however you see fit and recalibrate as a real person as though us Nostr folks were meeting in real life. Because I highly doubt, if we had a Nostr meetup, you’d talk to me in person as you do here. I’ve had more meetups with people here than you probably have. In the flesh. I’d talk to you nearly the same in person as I do here. And I meet so many online critics at major events that become polite pussy cats face to face. Most enemies that tend to be the weird “online only” enemies tend to be way more polite in person. I start out with the *shocking* notion that we are all real people having a virtual conversation online. I keep underestimating how inhuman most people get when they are distanced from social impacts face to face and so forth. They become weaker versions of themselves, and thus become ignorable not-like entities amid the bots. That’s how I view you. I think and hope in real life that you’re a stronger and broader version of the narrow cynic you present on Nostr, because nobody who bothers to be here this long is as pathetic as your persona in real life. It would be sad if that was a real view. You’re better than what you present. And yet, my weakness is that I resist the urge to mute unimportant people because I keep hoping that they will undergo the hero’s journey or “adulthood” and start acting in virtual world similarly to how they act in real life.

ikes != reading, and are a poor metric generally. i read and appreciate this user. they are saying things others are not. could they be wrong? yep, but it's not hard for me to consider their responses while reading other notes. i think the extra perspective is valuable. i can ignore the noise.

We're all biased in one way or another - every single one of us, and that's a good thing. Others challenge our biases, and we challenge theirs. That's a good thing. It expands our understanding of how the world works. Systemic bias on the other hand, is engineered to force a particular understanding, and that's obviously a bad thing. Systemic bias is engineered by a system such as a corporate or political entity. Curated Twitter or Farcebook feeds are examples of engineered bias.