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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • Please Use AI

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  • Aw dammit, you're right. I missed it was a substack. I withdraw my complaint.

  • Please Use AI

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  • Please Use AI

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  • Yeah, I was referring to the downvotes from people who assume the article is actually asking you to please use ai.

  • Please Use AI

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  • Oh, you poor lemmings, who cannot understand that sometimes there is more to an article than what the headline says literally.

  • it would be cool if posts could be geo-tagged

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  • Understandable; over the many years, the community structure has gotten somewhat unkempt and rather unruly, I'll admit. I think the best solution I've seen is regional instances -- if you block seattle.pink and social.seattle.wa.us on mastodon, you can really clear up a lot of the Seattle chatter, but there isn't a regional instance for us to host our communities that you could block easily. Realistically, I'm not sure how much a field would help -- you'd still see away games for the Seattle sports teams even if you muted the Seattle geo-tag, for instance, since they would be posted with the geo-tag for the home team.

  • it would be cool if posts could be geo-tagged

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  • I'm sorry I just really like Seattle and telling people about how great Seattle is.

  • What's the biggest misconception you think many people have?

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  • Math is memorizing and performing algorithms. So many adults looked at the common core math curriculum and said teachers aren't teaching math anymore because they didn't see their favorite long division algorithm taught, but memorizing and performing any particular algorithm is not what is important about learning math. Math is about taking axioms and seeing what you can build with them.

  • Please Explain Polymarket like I'm 5 and how it all started.

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  • I think what's particularly pernicious is the ability to monetarily reward people who understand the shape of the narrative without being close enough to decision makers to understand the intended outcomes.

  • Please Explain Polymarket like I'm 5 and how it all started.

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  • Not only is it not illegal, it's a feature of the system, since it allows the market to reveal insider information without breaking confidence. The folks who advocate in favor of prediction markets identify this ability to use the market to reveal insider information as a benefit of the system, and argue that allowing "super predictors" (insiders and rich people, by and large) to profit as a result is the cost we pay for getting the insider information as a signal from the price.

  • Please Explain Polymarket like I'm 5 and how it all started.

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  • Polymarket is much more complicated than you expect, because you can make money while making the “wrong” bet. The best way to understand it is to try it out with your friends. Have one person watch the murder mystery, and then create a stack of a few “bets” for each suspect, worth $10, $30, $50, $75, $100. Each of these shares pays the same at the end of the game, say $120, if the suspect is revealed to be the murderer. Give each of your friend $150 in Monopoly money. Players can buy a share at any time from the bank or from each other at any point for any price. The person with the most money at the end wins!

    As you play, you’ll notice you can make money by trading bets. Right now, it looks like the butler did it, so if you’re heavily invested in the butler you can sell those shares while they’re high, and buy the tennis coach. Next time the narrative of the movie shifts, you can sell the tennis coach and buy the spouse. You can even win the game without ever successfully guessing whodunnit.

    Polymarket is like this. There are propositions, and you can buy shares based on a current price. Based on the price of the shares relative to each other, you can mathematically work out the probability the market believes something has of happening. It’s like gambling, but more complicated, so you’re much less likely to actually make any money off it unless you’re really steeped in economics and markets. Notably, Polymarket arose out of work by economists who proposed it as an alternative to voting that would allow richer people to vote more, and poorer people to vote less.

  • Does a PBJ have a defined "up" side?

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  • Invisibility

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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    Threadiverse communities similar to Reddit's "SomebodyMakeThis" subreddit?

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  • I'm like 62% confident there is no such existing community. You should make one! We're always hurting for active mods, and people with a strong vision for the kind of community they want are the ideal candidates. Make sure to post it to !newcommunities@lemmy.world so folks know to join.

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • I like that they’re all connected — I can follow the portion of my friends who prefer a more Instagram type of social media, or a more TikTok style of social media, or a more Reddit style of social media, all from my mastodon account.

  • If you had end all be all say, what limits (if any) would you put on speech (public or private).

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  • I think I’d be pretty restrictive. Most of the arguments for free speech revolve around the idea that you need it to reform or overthrow a corrupt government, but we already have the ideal philosopher king (me) as the benevolent dictator, so we don’t need those pesky freedoms.

  • Do you sleep with noise?

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  • My fiancée sleeps with a fan. I sleep with my finacée snoring.

  • Freedom Power Go!

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  • Yeah? Been seeing a lot of Jean-Paul Sartre jokes around the internet recently?

  • Meta to Slash 8,000 Jobs This Week Amid $145B AI Push

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