KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
22hr ago
It's worse than that, because it also allows insider trading on literally anything you can stand up a market for, and you can also use them to directly incentivize specific behaviors without individually bribing someone or having a causal link back to the act to the person who funded it. And people complained about stochastic terrorism!
KingOfTheBailey
2d ago
Australian gambling industry
That'd be an interesting effortpost if ever you have the time. What's the main gambling people do over there?
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
KingOfTheBailey
9d ago
I once helped a friend bury a family pet. He had told his young son what had happened: that she was sick and the vets couldn't figure out why, and that the kindest thing to do was to put her down so she wouldn't suffer any more. The vet had prepared a pawprint and a little jar of her fur as mementos. We each helped dig the hole in the back yard, each of us said a couple of words about how we liked her, and we put something heavy on top of the soil so the dog wouldn't dig her back up.
KingOfTheBailey
10d ago
I never found faith. Hopefully God can forgive that little design flaw in my wetware, if He is indeed out there.
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
How does a zoomer choose a Star Control reference for a username?
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
Oh, great. We're now at the age where we have to explain who John Carmack is.
KingOfTheBailey
14d ago
In addition to frame tension, where is the center of gravity of the two-dancer system as you bring your follow around yourself and back out? A good swing-out shouldn't need that much additional energy each time around once you've got the rhythm going.
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
Now, some might say that just because an official government body invited some companies to have a friendly conversation about moderating their platforms, doesn't mean any pressure is actually being put on them, but the problem with that theory is that the companies themselves weren't under that impression.
One reason tech companies might form that impression is because regulatory bodies seem to be developing a habit of giving off that impression even when without exercising formal power. Recently, in eSafety Commissioner v Baumgarten, the Australian eSafety Commissioner had been revealed to be sending "informal requests" to X using X's legal requests portal, and then turning around and claiming to the Administrative Review Tribunal that the decisions were not reviewable because they weren't exercising formal powers granted to the Commissioner.
The Baumgarten case reveals that the Commission has gone beyond its statutory mandate by working to limit online speech that it considers harmful or otherwise problematic, but that falls below the thresholds set in the statute. Ms Baumgarten posted a video on X which was critical of a Melbourne primary school teacher for organising a ‘Queer Club’ for students. The post named the teacher, but did not identify any children. The eSafety Commission received a complaint about the post. The complaint was considered by Samantha Caruana, an official within the eSafety Commission, who had no delegated authority to compel social media services to remove posts. Ms Caruana concluded that the post probably did not amount to ‘cyber-abuse material’ for the purposes of s 7 of the Online Safety Act. Despite her conclusion, Ms Caruana filled in a form on X’s ‘Legal Requests Portal’ asking that the post be taken down. The eSafety Commission’s request referred to s 7 of the Online Safety Act as authority for the request.
Ms Baumgarten sought review of the eSafety Commission’s ‘decision’ to order the removal of her post in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (which was replaced by the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) during the course of her case). Section 220 of the Online Safety Act provides for a right to seek merits review of the Commissioner’s decisions to issue removal notices. But the Commission argued that Ms Baumgarten had no right to challenge the decision in the Tribunal, because it had not made a removal decision under s 88. Rather, the Commission argued, it had simply made a request of X that it remove the post. Thus, the Commission argued, that there was no ‘decision’ for the Tribunal to review and it had no jurisdiction.
The Commissioner's argument was rejected by the ART and the appeal rejected by the Federal Court of Australia.
KingOfTheBailey
22d ago
It's funny, I was in exactly your position the other week when some modern slang went over my head. It comes for us all.
KingOfTheBailey
22d ago
"Seen", as in "perceived with my own two eyes" that the short king was indeed short, and that my female friends didn't seem to notice.
KingOfTheBailey
22d ago
And yet, I've seen extremely charismatic short kings, where the women around him said things like "I just never noticed that he wasn't that tall. He seemed taller".
KingOfTheBailey
24d ago
You know what? Neither did I!
I'm not here to promote it. I think that if we're not very careful, existing prediction markets risk stumbling into incentivizing that by default, and this is a bad thing. Prediction markets might be fine among intelligent and conscientious forecasters, but I think they're another entry on the very long list of "good-sounding ideas that go badly when you roll them out society-wide".
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