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Nassim #Taleb on Minority Rule, and why unethical GenAI providers e.g. #Meta, #Anthropic, #OpenAI must be stamped out(*) and regulated by #democratically accountable government: "The minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant #virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly. ...the rule is an #asymmetry in choices." https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship-small-minority/
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

On Medium, Nassim explains how once an intransigent minority reaches a tiny percentage of the total population, the majority of the population will

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Ton Lansink Mar 15

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#3 Asymmetry of motivation. Andrew Mack (1975): the stronger party has less to lose. Political costs of a long war fall hardest on the stronger side. The weaker party doesn’t need to win. It only needs to survive.
#Asymmetry #Insurgency #SmallWars #Counterinsurgency

mj Jan 30

Humans have so many #biases that I think #asymmetry is rule rather than the exception. One of the main ones is related to the "fight or flight" instinct and our basic hardwired reactions to pain & pleasure. In our modern <hyper-fast> #media, both sides are used to trigger fast-thought behaviors.

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mj Jan 27

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by our continual #polycrisis environment. Surrounded by the #asymmetry of information overload & diverse interpretations of what the problems & solutions even are, we ask: Where will order come from? When it does emerge, it's immediate: we are masters of #adaptation.

Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻Jan 27

What is a #platform after all?

In our case it’s a part of the www having one owner and many users usually not affiliated otherwise. The owner being the sole source of rules and execution thereof, covering financial loss or benefit. Usually without a democratic process, but arbitrary, self-invented rules and policing.

They have in common a #feudal #asymmetry of power between the owners and the users. The users are many, but have very little #agency and face #arbitrariness. The owners are few and reside behind processes. Try to get a person with power to decide and act on the phone (let alone face-to-face) to hear appeal or resolve an issue, good luck.

Often platforms are what greed condensates to and #enshittification is their fate.

https://blog.mro.name/2024/10/goodbye-platforms-hello-www/#what-is-a-platform-after-all

Goodbye Platforms, hello WWW! | MRo Blog

M&M Crosswords Jan 18

Today's Sunday grid is an 11x11 with no symmetry, but don't let that slow you down! Click below for "Sunflower Signature" and dive right in. ;)

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#crossword #puzzle #game #sunflower #asymmetry #ShareThis #SundayFunday

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Metal Insider Nov 21

Album Review: Wheel of Time – ‘Asymmetry’

#WheelOfTime #Asymmetry #AlbumReview #NovemberReleases

Link: https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-wheel-of-time-asymmetry

Album Review: Wheel of Time – ‘Asymmetry’

It is a piece of recorded architecture, arranged and spiritually engineered by one man who treats metal composition the way a film director treats cinema.

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