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reddit is a recurring platform in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 08, 2021 and November 28, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “The default sanction on reddit is voting”; “See the full comment there, and his other Reddit comments , for more”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Twitter, Abba Eban.
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- Category: Platform
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 08, 2021
- Last seen: November 28, 2021
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- Abba Eban (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Einstein (1 shared issues)
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- Alexandros Marinos (1 shared issues)
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- amoral familialism (1 shared issues)
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- An Introduction to Law and Economics (1 shared issues)
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- anthropology (1 shared issues)
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- anti-androgens (1 shared issues)
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- Asian Tiger (1 shared issues)
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- Association of American Publishers (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
How does this apply to the internet? I’d note a few things. Pseudonymity (or especially anonymity) and transience will reduce close-knittedness, as you only have limited power over someone who can just abandon their identity. To the extent that people do have power, it may not be broadly distributed; on Twitter for example, I’d guess your power is roughly a function of how many followers you have, which is wildly unequal. On the other hand, public-by-default interactions increase close-knittedness. I do think that e.g. LessWrong plausibly counts as close-knit. The default sanction on reddit is voting, and it seems kind of not-great that the default sanction is so low-bandwidth. For an added kick or when it’s not clear what the voting is for, someone can write a comment (“this so much”; “downvoted for…”). That comment will have more weight if it gets upvoted itself, and/or comes from a respected user, and/or gets the moderator flag attached to it. Reddit also has gilding as essentially a super-upvote. For sanctioning remedial behavior, people can comment on it (“thanks for the gold”, “why is this getting downvoted?”) and vote on those comments. But some places also have meta-moderation as an explicit mechanism.
4: Dr. Bitterman, one of the researchers who came up with the ivermectin-effects-are-from-worms hypothesis, is defending his idea from some of the concerns you guys brought up in the comments. For example, in response to a comment that hyperinfection syndrome is rare, he writes:
Inline links: you guys brought up in the comments, writes
See the full comment there, and his other Reddit comments, for more. See also his Twitter. He also points out that the serological prevalence numbers I cited in one of my responses might not be accurate, since those include people with previous cases.
Inline links: his other Reddit comments, his Twitter