As long as Twitter lists itself as a Qatari/Saudi backed social media company I suppose fair is fair and at least they are being consistent in how they apply the rules. I wonder if they will do so.
Twitter is a social network. It may have media features, but its not a media company like NYT, NPR; etc. They don't create or practice journalism. They're a platform.
There's more to media than journalism. Twitter is not merely a platform, it's a platform for communication. A medium. I'd say that makes it a media company.
Well, because populations have grown so much in the last two hundred years, to the extent that a sizable chunk of all lives ever lived are after 1800 or so, I don't think that a long history in pre-modern times would move the needle that much.
Also, the Nazis are just really exceptionally bloody-handed. In terms of intentionally, directly killing people, they killed like 16 million people. In terms of intentionally, indirectly killing people, their deliberate use of famine killed eight or nine million civilians in the soviet union alone. Then you add all the people that died due to massacres, or were killed as collateral damage, and you can understand why 30 million people died in the USSR, the vast majority of whom were civilians. It generally gets much worse in areas the Nazis had a longer duration of control: in Poland, they killed about one in five people.
It's generally pretty hard to kill that many people before the 20th century, because the means of killing are too innefective, and the number of potential victims is too small. For what it's worth, Genghis Khan is probably the most bloody-handed pre-modern figure, so if we're going to blame religion for his behaviour, it's probably shamanism that has the highest death toll.
Right. If there are a billion fauxllers worth half a billion dollars, you want the half a billion dollars attached to your own half a billion fauxllers, and not the other half.
I wonder if you could make an AI that could generate likely meme ideas and then remove people from the equation completely. Seems pretty doable, if not already possible.
The problem is that memes, at least the ones that really take off, work because they are creative and funny, and so far that is probably the area AIs like GPT4 struggle the most with. It makes sense when you think about it, a technology that is built around the idea of predicting likely continuations will struggle with learning what is 'likely' in a context that asks for an element of surprise.
I.e., you'd probably need a pretty deep model if you want it to be able to understand that 'okay usually I combine likely concepts, but _now_ I need to combine unlikely concepts that still make sense together on a lower level'.
