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 This also touches upon the very definition of "intolerance"; Karl Popper has been erroneously or even wickedly invoked ten thousand times and his message twisted nearly beyond recognition by the Twitter mob (etc.) most of which have likely never read his works and reasoning.

Irt. The reporting bot/system:

Automated tools must be crafted with extreme care and likewise run with extremely pernicious oversight, since they are extremely powerful.

A script is "awake" 24 hours a day and can react to incoming data every second of those 24 hours.

A human needs rest for at least 8 hours per day, and to evaluate a situation at hand, a good long while to read what has been said and done, and the context surrounding it, to make a proper judgment.

Machine tools enables making potentially very serious errors at the speed of silicon, while the human operators or originators are asleep or absent and not able to stop them.

#thoughts #nostr #grownostr

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This is also why it is important not to establish a "monoculture" on filtering.

Centralised systems are monocultures by necessity, but even decentralised ones can become so if most users cannot have tools to customise them.

My little system was built with the thought of preventing that, but i havent had many people try it yet